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"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."
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"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."


"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."


"Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality."


"On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects."


"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."


"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."


"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."


"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."


"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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