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The Relations Between Parents And Children Are Certainly Not Only Those Of Constraint. There Is Spontaneous Mutual Affection, Which From The First Prompts The Child To Acts Of Generosity And Even Of Self-sacrifice, To Very Touching Demonstrations Which Are In No Way Prescribed. And Here No Doubt Is The Starting Point For That Morality Of Good Which We Shall See Developing Alongside Of The Morality Of Right Or Duty, And Which In Some Persons Completely Replaces It.

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?

The Essential Functions Of The Mind Consist In Understanding And In Inventing, In Other Words, In Building Up Structures By Structuring Reality.

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.

Our Problem, From The Point Of View Of Psychology And From The Point Of View Of Genetic Epistemology, Is To Explain How The Transition Is Made From A Lower Level Of Knowledge To A Level That Is Judged To Be Higher.