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.

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.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

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.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules.

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.