Who is Jean Piaget?

Jean Piaget was a smart man who studied how kids learn and grow. He noticed that kids think about things differently as they get older, like when you're little, you might believe your toy dinosaur is alive, but when you’re bigger, you know it's just plastic!

Imagine you have a box of building blocks. When you're little, you might just stack them up randomly and be happy with that. But as you grow, you start to notice patterns, maybe you learn how to make towers or bridges. Jean Piaget was like a scientist watching kids play with their blocks, figuring out how they understand the world around them.

Jean Piaget discovered that learning happens in stages, kind of like levels in a video game. At first, you're playing by yourself, then you learn to share and work with others. Each time you move up a level, your brain gets smarter and you understand more about the world.

He didn’t use magic, he used real life and observation, just like how you grow from stacking blocks to building whole cities!