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The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks.

— Jean Piaget

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

— Jerome Bruner

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

— Jean Piaget

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

— George Bernard Shaw

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

— Eberhard Arnold

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

— Alison Gopnik

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

— Michael Leunig

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

— Giorgio Vasari

See things from the boy's point of view.

— Robert Baden-Powell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

— Malachy McCourt

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

— Erik Erikson