The Child Is A Realist In Every

Before Games Are Played In Common, No Rules In The Proper Sense Can Come Into Existence. Regularities And Ritualized Schemas Are Already There, But These Rites, Being The Work Of The Individual, Cannot Call Forth That Submission To Something Superior To The Self Which Characterizes The Appearance Of Any Rule.

Are We Forming Children Who Are Only Capable Of Learning What Is Already Known? Or Should We Try To Develop Creative And Innovative Minds, Capable Of Discovery From The Preschool Age On, Throughout Life?

Moral Autonomy Appears When The Mind Regards As Necessary An Ideal That Is Independent Of All External Pressures.

The Need To Speak The Truth And Even To Seek It For Oneself Is Only Conceivable In So Far As The Individual Thinks And Acts As One Of A Society, And Not Of Any Society (for It Is Just The Constraining Relations Between Superior And Inferior That Often Drive The Latter To Prevarication) But Of A Society Founded On Reciprocity And Mutual Respect, And Therefore On Cooperation.

In Genetic Epistemology, As In Developmental Psychology, Too, There Is Never An Absolute Beginning.