"The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done."
-Jean Piaget
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"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.“
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"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
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"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
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"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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