Jean Piaget: Child

Jean Piaget was Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic. Explore interesting quotes on child.

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“Thus we see that the child is almost led to tell lies — or what seem to us lies from our point of view — by the very structure of his spontaneous thought. Given this situation, what will be the result of the laws laid down by adults about truthfulness? On the occasion of the first very obvious lies, or of those connected with some offense or other and told therefore with the object of averting punishment or scolding, the parents point out to the child that he has just done something very wrong and thus inculcate in him the respect for truth.”

Source: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism