Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Jean Piaget (Swiss Psychologist)

Jean Piaget (1896–1980) was a Swiss developmental psychologist who was the first to systematically study the acquisition of understanding in children.

Born in Neuchâtel, Piaget studied zoology, then turned to psychology and became professor of psychology at the University of Geneva 1929–54, director of the Centre d’Epistemologie genetique, and a director of the Institut des Sciences de l’Education.

Piaget is best known for his research on the development of cognitive functions (perception, intelligence, logic) for his intensive case-study methods of analysis (using his children.) Piaget postulated the ‘stages’ of cognitive development: from birth to about two years old, a child tries to master its physical reflexes and physical objects like blocks and toys; from ages 2 to 6, the child absorbs language by representing objects by words; until 12, the child learns logic and numbers and the classification of things by their similarities and differences; then to the age of 15, the child starts to develop orderliness of thinking and abstract concepts.

Piaget’s books include La Représentation du monde chez l’enfant (1926; The Child’s Conception of the World, 1928,) La Naissance de l’intelligence chez l’enfant (1936; The Origins of Intelligence in Children, 1952,) and La genèse des structures logiques elementaires (1959; The Early Growth of Logic in the Child, 1964.)

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Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.
Jean Piaget

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
Jean Piaget

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.
Jean Piaget
Topics: Creativity, Education, Goal

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