Frases de Jean Piaget

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“A primeira meta da educação é criar homens que sejam capazes de fazer coisas novas; homens que sejam criadores, inventores, descobridores.”

“Os fenômenos humanos são biológicos em suas raízes, sociais em seus fins e mentais em seus meios.”

“Quando olho uma criança ela me inspira dois sentimentos, ternura pelo que é, e respeito pelo que posso ser.”

“As estruturas operatórias da inteligência não são inatas.”

“O professor não ensina, mas arranja modos de a própria criança descobrir. Cria situações-problemas”

“Nasceu gente é inteligente”

“Thus we see that the child is almost led to tell lies — or what seem to us lies from our point of view — by the very structure of his spontaneous thought. Given this situation, what will be the result of the laws laid down by adults about truthfulness? On the occasion of the first very obvious lies, or of those connected with some offense or other and told therefore with the object of averting punishment or scolding, the parents point out to the child that he has just done something very wrong and thus inculcate in him the respect for truth.”

“As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. Mine is clearly living. The folders I need are within reach, in the order of frequency with which I use them. True, it gets tricky to locate a folder in the lower levels. But if you have to find it, you look for it. That takes less time than putting them away every day.”

“The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.”

“As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.”

“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”