Scientific Knowledge Is In Perpetual Evolution; It

When You Teach A Child Something You Take Away Forever His Chance Of Discovering It For Himself.

If Logic Itself Is Created Rather Than Being Inborn, It Follows That The First Task Of Education Is To Form Reasoning.

In Genetic Epistemology, As In Developmental Psychology, Too, There Is Never An Absolute Beginning.

In Certain Circumstances Where He Experiments In New Types Of Conduct By Cooperating With His Equals, The Child Is Already An Adult. There Is An Adult In Every Child And A Child In Every Adult. ... There Exist In The Child Certain Attitudes And Beliefs Which Intellectual Development Will More And More Tend To Eliminate: There Are Others Which Will Acquire More And More Importance. The Later Are Not Derived From The Former But Are Partly Antagonistic To Them.

Each Time One Prematurely Teaches A Child Something He Could Have Discovered Himself, That Child Is Kept From Inventing It And Consequently From Understanding It Completely.