The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.
From 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.
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
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