I admire Piaget

Hi everybody. Today I'll talk you about a person that I admire, and he is Jean Piaget (William Fritz Jean Piaget). He was born on August 9, 1939 in Switzerland and he died on September 16, 1980 in Geneva. 

He studied Natural Sciences and then about psychoanalysis and intelligence, working on Genetic Psychology and Epistemology of Science. He recognized that child's thinking differs from adult’s thinking and he supported the idea that children develop in a progressive way  going through different stages, which were:

1) Sensory-motor stage (0-2 years) characterized by an enormous curiosity about the world

2) Pre-operational stage (2-7 years): children are egocentric and they think in world like a magical world

3) Concrete operational stage (7-11 years): characterized by a literal and concrete thinking

4) Formal operational stage (11-15 years): children have ability to understand abstract language

I like Piaget because I think that he was one of the first people to recognize the child as a subject who means things and world of a different way. Today, his ideas have been refuted many times, but I think he is a person who should be recognized for his great contribution, because after all, we all go through childhood.