Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
Jean PiagetThe 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.
Jean PiagetIn genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
Jean PiagetEach time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Jean Piaget