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John Hope Franklin, LL.D., professor of history at the University of Chicago. Jean Piaget, D.Sc., psychologist. Scientist, philosopher and teacher, you have profoundly altered man's conception of his own cognition...
Appointed director of studies at Geneva's Rousseau Institute, Piaget continued to investigate this phenomenon. He spent long hours observing the crib activity of his own three children, shot marbles on hands and knees with Genevan boys as he tested their ideas and feelings about ethics and the rules of games, and gently asked schoolchildren questions about the numbers and groupings of flowers and beads that he gave them to play with. His investigations led him to detailed observations on how children acquire such complicated concepts and abilities as space, geometry, causality, logic, moral judgment and memory. Le Patron...
Compelling Conception. Piaget's critics feel that his conclusions are based more on his canny intuition than on demonstrable scientific evidence. He scorns the use of statistical measurements and controls, which makes it difficult to prove that the children he has studied are typical. Some educators and child-guidance experts, particularly in the U.S., say Piaget's sweeping concepts are of little help in explaining or diagnosing the differing motivations and accomplishments of individual children...
Nonetheless, supporters outnumber detractors. Harvard's Bruner, Piaget's most appreciative critic in the U.S., voices a common reaction when he acknowledges that Piaget's general conception of the growing mind "is so compelling that even in attacking it one is inevitably influenced by it." At the very least, Jean Piaget has enabled adults to approach children more sensitively and realistically-and perhaps even with greater...
...American publishers recently have brought out two guides for laymen, Piaget's Theory of Intellectual Development (Prentice-Hall, $6.95), and An Outline of Piaget's Developmental Psychology for Students and Teachers (Basic Books, $4.95). In addition Piaget and his longtime associate, Barbel Inhelder, have summarized his discoveries in a new book called The Psychology of the Child (Basic Books...