play and the chance of discovery (9 August 2016)

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

Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?'

- Jean Piaget

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

- Jean Piaget

Play School Play Ideas 2 - written by Carole Ward, illustrated by Quentin Blake (1977)


Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves.

- Jean Piaget