When You Teach A Child Something You

The Discussion Of The Game Of Marbles Seems To Have Led Us Into Rather Deep Waters. But In The Eyes Of Children The History Of The Game Of Marbles Has Quite As Much Importance As The History Of Religion Or Of Forms Of Government. It Is A History, Moreover, That Is Magnificently Spontaneous; And It Was Therefore Perhaps Not Entirely Useless To Seek To Throw Light On The Child's Judgment Of Moral Value By A Preliminary Study Of The Social Behaviour Of Children Amongst Themselves.

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

To Express The Same Idea In Still Another Way, I Think That Human Knowledge Is Essentially Active.

Only Education Is Capable Of Saving Our Societies From Possible Collapse, Whether Violent, Or Gradual.

Scientific Knowledge Is In Perpetual Evolution; It Finds Itself Changed From One Day To The Next.