We learn more when we are compelled 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?

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Experience precedes understanding.

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

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists