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Jean Piaget
(9 Aug 1896 - 17 Sep 1980)
Swiss psychologist and zoologist.
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Science Quotes by Jean Piaget (2)
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done—men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
— Jean Piaget
From remarks at a conference on cognitive development, Cornell University (1964). In Philip Hampson Taylor, New Directions in Curriculum Studies (1979), 90.
See also: | Creativity (21) | Discovery (178) | Education (124) | Innovation (20) | Invention (93) | Mind (125) | Verify (2)
To understand is to invent.
— Jean Piaget
Quoted in Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2 (2001), 240.
