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“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
— Jean Piaget
Psychologist
Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980) by Jean Claude Bringuier
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