The Life of Jean Piaget
Jean was born to Arthur Piaget (A medieval Lit professor) and Rebecca Jackson (a French woman) on August 9th, 1896.
Early in life he took an intreat in biology and the natural world. He was widely known the zoology world, due to being published many times on the topic of mollusks by the age of only 15. He attended University of Neuchâtel, the school at which his father taught, and he attended The University of Zurich for a brief amount of time. During his time at Zurich university, he was has two papers published, dealing with the topic of philosophy.
Soon after graduating, Jean moved to France to teach at Grange-Aux-Belles Street School for Boys. While here, he accidentally stumbled upon discovering how children would normally answer the same questions either wrong or right. Jean also took note how only small children would make these mistakes, as the participators got older, the amount of questions they got right would increase. Once Jean moved back to Switzerland, he married and had three children. He used his offspring as tests, almost. He studied them from their birth. In 1979 he was awarded the Blazan Prize for Social and Political Sciences.
Jean was born to Arthur Piaget (A medieval Lit professor) and Rebecca Jackson (a French woman) on August 9th, 1896.
Early in life he took an intreat in biology and the natural world. He was widely known the zoology world, due to being published many times on the topic of mollusks by the age of only 15. He attended University of Neuchâtel, the school at which his father taught, and he attended The University of Zurich for a brief amount of time. During his time at Zurich university, he was has two papers published, dealing with the topic of philosophy.
Soon after graduating, Jean moved to France to teach at Grange-Aux-Belles Street School for Boys. While here, he accidentally stumbled upon discovering how children would normally answer the same questions either wrong or right. Jean also took note how only small children would make these mistakes, as the participators got older, the amount of questions they got right would increase. Once Jean moved back to Switzerland, he married and had three children. He used his offspring as tests, almost. He studied them from their birth. In 1979 he was awarded the Blazan Prize for Social and Political Sciences.