“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
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.
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.