I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Quote by Jean Piaget
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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
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Jean Piaget Quotes
- 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.
- In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
- Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
- To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
- Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
- The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
- It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
- The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
- 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.
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- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
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- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
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- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.