How Much More Precious Is A Little

It Is As His Own Mind Comes Into Contact With Others That Truth Will Begin To Acquire Value In The Child's Eyes And Will Consequently Become A Moral Demand That Can Be Made Upon Him. As Long As The Child Remains Egocentric, Truth As Such Will Fail To Interest Him And He Will See No Harm In Transposing Facts In Accordance With His Desires.

Education, For Most People, Means Trying To Lead The Child To Resemble The Typical Adult Of His Society . . . But For Me And No One Else, Education Means Making Creators. . . . You Have To Make Inventors, Innovators...not Conformists

It Was While Teaching Philosophy That I Saw How Easily One Can Say ... What One Wants To Say. ... In Fact, I Became Particularly Aware If The Dangers Of Speculation ... It's So Much Easier Than Digging Out The Facts. You Sit In Your Office And Build A System. But With My Training In Biology, I Felt This Kind Of Undertaking Precarious.

If A Baby Really Has No Awareness Of Himself And Is Totally Thing-directed And At The Same Time All His States Of Mind Are Projected Onto Things, Our Second Paradox Makes Sense: On The One Hand, Thought In Babies Can Be Viewed As Pure Accommodation Or Exploratory Movements, But On The Other This Very Same Thought Is Only One, Long, Completely Autistic Waking Dream.

The More The Schemata Are Differentiated, The Smaller The Gap Between The New And The Familiar Becomes, So That Novelty, Instead Of Constituting An Annoyance Avoided By The Subject, Becomes A Problem And Invites Searching.