Piaget was born on Aug. 9, 1896, in Switzerland. He initially had an interest in zoology; he got a doctorate in the subject, which he studied at university alongside philosophy. However, after college, he got really interested in psychology, even studying under Carl Jung in Zürich. He then studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, starting in 1919, where he became interested in the kinds of mistakes kids would make on reading tests he administered. This led to his lifelong study of cognitive development.
As you can imagine, Piaget’s work was significant and influential not just in developmental psychology, but in other fields like sociology, education and more. And today’s quote can be taken many ways, but it really highlights that we are an extension of our childhood selves, even if we don’t think the same way we did back then.
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Quote of the Day by Jean Piaget
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This quote appears in Jean Piaget’s book, The Moral Judgment of the Child, in Chapter 1 titled, “The Rules of the Game.” Specifically, it’s at the end of this chapter, under the eighth section called “Conclusions: Motor Rules and the Two Kinds of Respect.”
Adults have more life experience, more knowledge and more common sense (their brains are just more developed) and can therefore make more complex choices. And again, as VeryWellMind reported, Piaget ultimately came up with a theory that stated children’s thinking is different from adults.
“In certain circumstances where he experiments in new types of conduct by cooperating with his equals, the child is already an adult. There is an adult in every child and a child in every adult… There exist in the child certain attitudes and beliefs which intellectual development will more and more tend to eliminate: there are others which will acquire more and more importance. The latter are not derived from the former but are partly antagonistic to them.”
At first, it might seem like this quote contradicts the main point in his theories on human development. However, as he notes right after the quote, he’s not saying that adults and children are the same in their understanding of a situation or in the conclusions they make. He’s simply saying that there are echoes of children—maybe even your inner child—in every adult.
He is saying that even though there can be bits and pieces here and there of adult decision-making in kids, it’s not 100% and usually only comes up when they’re with equals (i.e., other kids). And simple—or even uniform—choices might bring out a little more of the kid in you, when it comes to adults.
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More Quotes from Jean Piaget
“To understand is to invent.”"Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them something too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves."“If children fail to understand one another, it is because they think they understand one another.”“Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.”“The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.”“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”Related: Quote of the Day: Helen Keller on the ‘True Test of a Character’—Facing Hard Moments With ‘Determination'
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