sep 17, 1980 (b. aug 1896)

Jean Piaget Dies; Eminent Psychologist

Geneva, Switzerland (UPI) - Jean Piaget, the eminent Swiss child psychologist whose books were required reading for thousands of aspiring teachers, died Tuesday at 84.

Mr. Piaget's appointment as professor of philosophy at his hometown university of Neuchatel, Switzerland, in 1926 began a distinguished academic career that earned him 35 honorary doctorates.

Leyden note: did you know Einstein never had a doctorate? jack horner, the super dinosaur-ologist, flunked out of college seven times and has no degree.

He was director of the International Bureau of Education from 1929 until 1967 and co-director of L'Institut des Science de l'Education from 1933 until 1971. In 1955 he opened the international Center of Genetic Epistemology and was its first director.

Mr. Piaget also taught at Geneva and Lausanne universities as well as at the Sorbonne in Paris. He won many awards, including the Erasmus Prize in 1972, the Balzan Prize in 1979 and the first Kittay International Award for Psychiatry in 1973.

His published works included

Language and Thought in Children,

Judgment and Reasoning in Children,

Moral Judgment in Children and

The Growth of Intelligence in Children.

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