Jean Piaget Quote

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.


Piaget (1971, p.27) cited in: Ernst von Glasersfeld "Homage to Jean Piaget (1896–1980)". In: Irish Journal of Psychology, 18, pp. 293–306


The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.