Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try … - Jean Piaget

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Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

Jean Piaget

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?

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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.

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When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.

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Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover for himself will remain with him visible for the rest of his life.

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Play is the work of childhood.

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Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration

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