Quotes About Learning

Piaget also did not provide a detailed analysis of how communicative interaction leads to symbolic representation.

In contrast to empiricist theories, in which knowledge is derived from perception, Piaget emphasized the role of action and operations (transformation) in the construction of knowledge.

The reflexes of interest to Piaget are distinguished from simple reflexes (e.g., sneezing reflex) in that they change as a result of experience and thus have a history (OI, p. 40).

First, higher mental functions are grounded in and emerge out of a practical, prereflective form of intelligence.

for example, in grasping a new toy, this toy is assimilated to the grasping scheme, the toy attains the functional meaning of being "graspable.

Piaget, J. (2001). Studies in reflecting abstraction. Hove: Psychology Press. (Original work published in 1977)

Needs themselves are not static but become more complex with the differentiation and integration of sensorimotor schemes (OI, p. 170).

During this substage, infants start to reciprocally assimilate or coordinate two different schemes. For example, infants grasp what they are seeing, and they move in front of their eyes what they are grasping.

According to Piaget, infants' reactions to the bottle or other stimuli cannot be explained by external stimulus-response relations because the stimuli have a meaning for the infants to begin with; without this meaning, it would not be possible to explain why these stimuli become relevant or how the associations could be confirmed or strengthened (OI, p. 127).

In contrast to primary circular reactions, secondary circular reactions are centered on the effect that infants' actions – often by chance – produce in the external world. Essentially, secondary circular reactions aim at reproducing the effect by repeating the action that generated this effect in the first place.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

We live for books.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

No one is perfect... that's why pencils have erasers.

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

A prudent question is one half the wisdom.

Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.