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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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverersJean Piaget
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
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The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
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