During The Earliest Stages The Child Perceives

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?

The Child Who Defines A Lie As Being A "naughty Word" Knows Perfectly Well That Lying Consists In Not Speaking The Truth. He Is Not, Therefore, Mistaking One Thing For Another, He Is Simply Identifying Them One With Another By What Seems To Us A Quaint Extension Of The Word "lie".

Scientific Thought, Then, Is Not Momentary; It Is Not A Static Instance; It Is A Process.

Accommodation Of Mental Structures To Reality Implies The Existence Of Assimilatory Schemata Apart From Which Any Structure Would Be Impossible.

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.