Children Require Long, Uniterrupted Periods Of Play

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

Much Research In Psychology Has Been More Concerned With How Large Groups Of People Behave Than About The Particular Ways In Which Each Individual Person Thinks... Too Statistical. I Find This Disappointing Because, In My View Of The History Of Psychology, Far More Was Learned, For Example, When Jean Piaget Spent Several Years Observing The Ways That Three Children Developed, Or When Sigmund Freud Took Several Years To Examine The Thinking Of A Rather Small Number Of Patients.

During The Earliest Stages The Child Perceives Things Like A Solipsist Who Is Unaware Of Himself As Subject And Is Familiar Only With His Own Actions.

Scientific Thought, Then, Is Not Momentary; It Is Not A Static Instance; It Is A Process.

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.