Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

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.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.