Jean Piaget Quotes


Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.


Citations

Piaget, Jean. The Moral Judgment of the Child. Translated by Marjorie Gabain, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1932, p. 1.

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Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
  • Born: August 9, 1896
  • Died: September 16, 1980
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Profession: Psychologist

Jean Piaget was a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Piaget's theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".