Jean Piaget was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1896. By the age of 12 he had published a scholarly article about albino sparrows and by the time of his death, in 1980, he had produced more than 60 books and hundreds of papers.
Having graduated and gained a doctorate in science, Piaget took up a university research post in Paris in 1919, in the famous psychology laboratory of Alfred Binet. His job was to translate standardised British intelligence tests into French. What Piaget noticed was that children's errors often followed similar patterns, and this set him on a lifelong quest to understand and explain children's thought processes.
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