It Is With Children That We Have

Knowing Reality Means Constructing Systems Of Transformations That Correspond, More Or Less Adequately, To Reality.

Much Research In Psychology Has Been More Concerned With How Large Groups Of People Behave Than About The Particular Ways In Which Each Individual Person Thinks... Too Statistical. I Find This Disappointing Because, In My View Of The History Of Psychology, Far More Was Learned, For Example, When Jean Piaget Spent Several Years Observing The Ways That Three Children Developed, Or When Sigmund Freud Took Several Years To Examine The Thinking Of A Rather Small Number Of Patients.

In Certain Circumstances Where He Experiments In New Types Of Conduct By Cooperating With His Equals, The Child Is Already An Adult. There Is An Adult In Every Child And A Child In Every Adult. ... There Exist In The Child Certain Attitudes And Beliefs Which Intellectual Development Will More And More Tend To Eliminate: There Are Others Which Will Acquire More And More Importance. The Later Are Not Derived From The Former But Are Partly Antagonistic To Them.

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.

Chance... In The Accommodation Peculiar To Sensorimotor Intelligence, Plays The Same Role As In Scientific Discovery. It Is Only Useful To The Genius And Its Revelations Remain Meaningless To The Unskilled.