True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and they become a necessary form of fuel for its activity.

What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

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 genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

To understand is to invent.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?