Ernst von Glasersfeld Quotes

• What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Art, Teaching, Purpose

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• What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

  Ernst von Glasersfeld

  Knowledge, Independent, Reality

  "Contextualism in psychological research?: a critical review" by E. John Capaldi, Robert W. Proctor, (p. 10), 1999.

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