Constructivism Quotes:

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

- Paul Watzlawick

topic: Reality, Doe, Break, Objective Reality, Constructivism

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey

topic: Life, Inspiring, Education, Unschooling, Inspirational Education

What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning.

- Ernst von Glasersfeld

topic: Art, Teaching, Purpose, Constructivism

That we do not discover reality but rather invent it is quite shocking for many people. And the shocking part about it - according to the concept of radical constructivism - is that the only thing we can ever know about the real reality (if it even exists) is what it is not. It is only with the collapse of our constructions of reality that we first discover that the world is not the way we imagine.

- Paul Watzlawick

topic: Real, People, World, Constructivism

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

- Alfred North Whitehead

source: Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”

topic: Perception, Triumph, Negative, Postmodernism, Constructivism

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Illustration, Events, Religion And Politics, Postmodernism, Constructivism

The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.436, Courier Corporation

topic: Sadness, Men, Sick, Libido, Postmodernism

As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.

- Allen W. Wood

topic: Decision, Outcomes, Facts, Constructivism

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

- Paul Johnson

source: Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

topic: Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance, Postmodernism, Constructivism

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

- Rem Koolhaas

source: ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

topic: Political, Style, Important, Stalinism, Colossal

In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.

- Steven Weinberg

topic: Trying, Lobbying, Vote, Testifying, Constructivism

The activities of these parasites and degenerates gave rise to Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Pointillism, Constructivism, Orphism, Surrealism, Dada, and also Impossibleism, Supersurrealism, Dynamic Double-Dog Realism, Ishkabibbleism, and Mama, which is like Dada only nicer.

- Daniel Pinkwater

source: Daniel Pinkwater (2012). “Bushman Lives!”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dog, Degenerates, Mama, Cubism, Futurism

I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.

- Allen W. Wood

topic: Thinking, Ethics, Mathematics, Constructivism