"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."
-Jean Piaget
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"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.“
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"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
-Jean Piaget
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
-Jean Piaget
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"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."
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"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
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