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The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

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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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Play is the work of childhood.

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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

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Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

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Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life.

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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

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The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 9th, 1896

Died: September 16th, 1980

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