Quote by Jean Piaget
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating

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. – Jean Piaget

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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. – Jean Piaget

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

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I definitely had a top-notch education. – Paul Giamatti

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Im sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think its outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education. – Marian Wright Edelman

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The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education. – Joseph Lancaster

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They know enough who know how to learn. – Henry Adams

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