Jean Piaget

1896–1980 · Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher and academic

Topics: learning, creativity

• Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

  — Jean Piaget

• Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

  — Jean Piaget

• 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.

  — Jean Piaget