To Understand Is To Invent.

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.

The Principal 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 Discovers. The Second Goal Of Education Is To Form Minds Which Can Be Critical, Can Verify, And Not Accept Everything They Are Offered.

The Essential Functions Of The Mind Consist In Understanding And In Inventing, In Other Words, In Building Up Structures By Structuring Reality.

To Understand Is To Invent.

Logical Positivists Have Never Taken Psychology Into Account In Their Epistemology, But They Affirm That Logical Beings And Mathematical Beings Are Nothing But Linguistic Structures.