"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 child who defines a lie as being a "naughty word" knows perfectly well that lying consists in not speaking the truth. He is not, therefore, mistaking one thing for another, he is simply identifying them one with another by what seems to us a quaint extension of the word "lie"."
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Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child. Book by Jean Piaget, transl. by Marjorie Gabain, Ch. 2: Adult Constraint and Moral Realism, 1932.
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