Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
In the 1960s a white-haired, plump-cheeked gentleman could be seen riding round Geneva on his old bike puffing his pipe. This was Jean Piaget, now considered to be one of the greatest psychologists of the twentieth century. Throughout his life he opposed chauvinistic clich ?s about the development of the human being and sought to find out exactly how the child constructs knowledge. He was born on 9 August 1896 in Neuch ?tel, Switzerland, where his father was a professor of…
