Jean Piaget Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Experience precedes understanding.

  Jean Piaget

  Understanding

• 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.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Real, Teaching

• 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.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Understanding, Teach

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

  Jean Piaget

  Reality, Building Up, Understanding

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

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