Jean Piaget Quotes

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

I think you never stop learning.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it.