Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... but for me, education means making creators. You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
L'éducation, pour la plupart des gens, signifie essayer d'amener l'enfant à ressembler à l'adulte typique de sa société... Mais pour moi, l'éducation, c'est faire des créateurs. Il faut faire des inventeurs, des innovateurs, pas des conformistes.
Psychologists
Jean Piaget
Swiss developmental psychologist (1896-1980). A malacologist who turned to cognition while scoring Binet tests, his four-stage theory made him the 20th century's second most cited psychologist.
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Jean Piaget's Other Quotes
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
To understand is to invent.
Intelligence is not what you know but what you do when you don't know.
When you teach a child something, you forever take away from him the pleasure and benefit of discovering it for himself.
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