Jean Piaget Quotes About Understanding

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  • Experience precedes understanding.

  • The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

    "Homage to Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980)" by Ernst von Glasersfeld, "Irish Journal of Psychology", vol. 18, issue 3, pp. 293 - 306, 1997.
  • 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.

  • Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.

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Jean Piaget

  • Born: August 9, 1896
  • Died: September 16, 1980
  • Occupation: Psychologist