Education Quotes

"Children develop their sense of right and wrong through social interaction and conflict resolution."

"Moral education is not about indoctrination, but about helping people think more deeply."

"Moral reasoning develops through encountering moral dilemmas and grappling with them."

"Children who are given opportunities to discuss moral issues develop faster than those who are not."

"Moral reasoning is a skill that must be developed, like any other skill."

"Moral development is stunted when people are denied the opportunity to grapple with real ethical dilemmas."

"The principal goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."

"Play is the work of childhood."

"It is with children that we have the best hope of studying the development of logical operations."

"Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society."

"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things."

"Sensorimotor intelligence is the foundation for all subsequent cognitive development."

"The child becomes capable of operational thought when he can manipulate symbols internally."

"Egocentrism is not the product of moral egoism but rather an intellectual limitation of the child."

"Every 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."

"What is pedagogy but the art of transmitting to the young the intellectual and moral heritage of the adult generation?"

"The child who understands conservation understands that quantity does not change merely because appearance changes."

"Decentralization of thought marks the transition from pre-operational to concrete operational thinking."

"Children are natural scientists, constantly formulating hypotheses about how the world works."

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

"To teach a child to read is to teach him to recognize the symbols and understand their meaning."

"If education aims to form free and creative individuals, we must recognize the importance of play."

"Play is the royal road to childhood learning."

"The symbolic function emerges when the child can use one thing to represent another."

"The horizontal décalage explains why a child can conserve number before conserving volume."

"The adolescent becomes capable of abstract reasoning and systematic hypothesis testing."

"Centration is the tendency of the young child to focus on one aspect of a situation while ignoring others."

"Animism is not a sign of magical thinking but rather an understandable confusion about the boundaries of life."

"Irreversibility of thought characterizes the pre-operational stage of development."

"Seriation is the ability to arrange objects in logical sequences, a key cognitive achievement."