Quotations: Education and Development

«Education needs to render a person capable of culture. The person possesses this capability when he possesses action schemata, operations and concepts which enable him ‘to orient himself in the world, to interpret the events which he encounters, to participate in cultural exchange, essentially also through reading and writing, and to solve the problems which present themselves to him.» (1983a, 354)

«Education does not take place in a vacuum, but rather in a given concrete society, and its purpose is the integration (of students) into this society and transmission, tradition of its culture, a culture to which the appreciation of creativity and capacity for innovation also belong.» (1973a)

«When one speaks of ‘formation of thought’, one means ‘formation of operations’, and when one speaks of ‘formation of operations’, one means ‘building up operations’. The building up of operations is accomplished over the course of seeking and researching, and all seeking and researching arises from a problem.» (1951/1976, 94/95)

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