让·皮亚杰（Jean Piaget，1896 – 1980）， 瑞士的一位心理学家，他以对儿童的理解能力进行系统的研究而闻名。他被广泛认为是20世纪发展心理学中最重要的人物。他的认知发展理论成为了这个学科的典范，一生留给后人60多本专著、500多篇论文。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
当你教会一个孩子一些东西的时候，你就永远剥夺了他自己发现这些东西的机会。
Play is the work of childhood.
玩耍是童年时代的工作。
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
我们是在培养只会学习已知知识的孩子吗?”或者我们应该努力培养具有创造力和创新精神的头脑，从学龄前开始，直到一生都有发现的能力?
Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration.
孩子们需要长时间的、不间断的玩耍和探索。
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men who are creative, inventive, and discovers. The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered.
教育的主要目标是培养能创新的人，而不仅仅是重复前几代人已经做过的事情——培养有创造力、有发明能力和有发现能力的人；教育的第二个目标是培养具有批判性、验证性和不接受一切的头脑。
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.我们所看到的改变了我们所知道的。我们所知道的会改变我们所看到的。
Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.
孩子们只有对他们自己发明的东西才有真正的理解，而每次我们试图过快地教他们时，我们阻止他们自己去重新发明。
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.
对大多数人来说，教育意味着试图引导孩子成为他所在社会的典型成年人……但对我来说，教育意味着培养创造者. . . .你必须培养发明家、创新者……不是墨守成规的人。
What is desired is that the teacher ceased being a lecturer, satisfied with transmitting ready-made solutions. His role should rather be that of a mentor stimulating initiative and research.
人们所期望的是教师不再是满足于传递现成解决方案的讲师。他的角色更应该是一个激励积极性和研究的导师。
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
如果你想要有创造力，那就保留孩子的一部分，在他们被成人社会扭曲之前，拥有孩子特有的创造力和发明。
The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.
教育的目标不是增加知识的数量，而是为孩子创造发明和发现的可能性，培养能够创新的人。
