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

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

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.

Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.