To understand is to invent. - Jean Piaget

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Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

Jean Piaget

To understand is to invent.

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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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David E. Cooper

There is something myopic and stunted in focussing only on the meaning of words and sentences. And this myopia is especially unfortunate when combined with a rather abstract view of a language as a set of elements and rules for combining these. For the result is to divorce enquiry into meaning from attention to the way words - and gestures, facial expressions, rituals and so on - are embedded in practices, in what Wittgenstein called 'the stream of life'.

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Winston Graham

Youth was so mercilessly hard in its decisions; it had its own unyielding standards and had not yet learned enough to know that time would prove them arbitrary.

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Pamela Anderson

Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot.

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Fisher Ames

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

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Vincent D'Onofrio

So, it's always different. Some stuff, you want to do because it's a part that you've never played. It's always for story. Sometimes there's a story that you really dig, but there's no part that you're interested in. Sometimes you read a story and you say, "I could do that. I've never done that before. I could do play that part.

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