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.

Experience precedes understanding.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

How much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

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?

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.