Children's Minds

Plot

In the course of this book I argue that the evidence now compels us to reject certain features of Jean Piaget's theory of intellectual development. It may seems odd , then, if my first acknowledgement of indebtedness is to a man whose work I criticize. Yet the indebtedness is there and the acknowledgement is certainly due. Many years ago he was kind enough to welcome me to the Institut des Sciences de l'Education in Geneva; and much of subsequent research was stimulated by the excitement of that first visit. I I must now reject some of his teaching , no lessening of respect for the man or for his vast contribution to knowledge is implied. No theory in science is final ; and no one is more fully aware id this than Piaget himself.