The Most Developed Science Remains A Continual

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.

Much Research In Psychology Has Been More Concerned With How Large Groups Of People Behave Than About The Particular Ways In Which Each Individual Person Thinks... Too Statistical. I Find This Disappointing Because, In My View Of The History Of Psychology, Far More Was Learned, For Example, When Jean Piaget Spent Several Years Observing The Ways That Three Children Developed, Or When Sigmund Freud Took Several Years To Examine The Thinking Of A Rather Small Number Of Patients.

It Was While Teaching Philosophy That I Saw How Easily One Can Say ... What One Wants To Say. ... In Fact, I Became Particularly Aware If The Dangers Of Speculation ... It's So Much Easier Than Digging Out The Facts. You Sit In Your Office And Build A System. But With My Training In Biology, I Felt This Kind Of Undertaking Precarious.

Before Games Are Played In Common, No Rules In The Proper Sense Can Come Into Existence. Regularities And Ritualized Schemas Are Already There, But These Rites, Being The Work Of The Individual, Cannot Call Forth That Submission To Something Superior To The Self Which Characterizes The Appearance Of Any Rule.

The Child Is A Realist In Every Domain Of Thought, And It Is Therefore Natural That In The Moral Sphere He Should Lay More Stress On The External, Tangible Element Than On The Hidden Motive.