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.

It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.

What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

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.

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

How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.

Experience precedes understanding.