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Jean Piaget Quotes: Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
         

Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.


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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.

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.



When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.



Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.



Play is the work of childhood.

Play is the work of childhood.



Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration



Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.



Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.



Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.



Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.



Experience precedes understanding.

Experience precedes understanding.





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These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is the rising tide of our time.

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You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.

You're not going to learn how to do it until you do it.



Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.



Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.



America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.

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Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!

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O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

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The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.




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