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“The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.”

Quote by Jean Piaget

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Swiss psychologist and the founder of the theory of cognitive development. Piaget's research has had a profound impact on fields such as educational psychology and child psychology. more

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“If a baby really has no awareness of himself and is totally thing-directed and at the same time all his states of mind are projected onto things, our second paradox makes sense: on the one hand, thought in babies can be viewed as pure accommodation or exploratory movements, but on the other this very same thought is only one, long, completely autistic waking dream.”

Ifs Mind Long States Dream Hands Awareness Movement Baby Pure Make Sense Paradox State Of Mind Waking Autistic Accommodations

Author:Jean Piaget

“I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.”

Moments Situation Psychology Accounts Convinced Boundaries Psychological Organisms New Situations

Book:Conversations with Jean Piaget

Source: Conversations with Jean Piaget

“The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.”

Mind Reality Understanding Building Essentials Function Structure Inventing Building Up

Author:Jean Piaget

“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.”

Self Games Individual Common Existence Appearance Superiors Submission Rite Regularity Schemas

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.”

Games Practice Adults Concerned Mark Contradiction Cooperation Mentality Mystical Constraints Marble Egocentric

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“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.”

Children Certain Belief Attitude Type Development Circumstances Intellectual Adults Importance Experiments Former Acquire Cooperating Intellectual Development

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and this is where rules come into existence as soon as a balance is established between adaptation and assimilation, the course of conduct adopted becomes crystallized and ritualized. New schemas are even established which the child looks for and retains with care, as though they were obligatory or charged with efficacy.”

Looks Children Care Courses Existence Situation Conditions Balance Adopted Adaptation Mixtures Motor Assimilation Efficacy Schemas

Author:Jean Piaget

“There is little mysticism without an element of transcendence, and conversely, there is no transcendence without a certain degree of egocentrism. It may be that the genesis of these experiences is to be sought in the unique situation of the very young child in relation to adults. The theory of the filial origin of the religious sense seems to us singularly convincing in this connection.”

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.”

Ifs Doe Opposition Mutual Mutual Respect

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.”