“In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.”
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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.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
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.
