Of course, my questions would be different than yours, but I would ask why Piaget was interested in children. Much of his early work was with water snails, and it's not a logical jump between studying mollusks and children. Piaget also looked at stages of development. I would ask him why he created these stages and if they are concrete, or if children can move between one stage and the next. I would ask him what his opinion was of social constructivists such as Vygotsky and if his theories discounted the role that others play in a child's life. I would also ask him if he saw children's minds as a "blank slate" at birth or if the children had the capacity to learn certain things and that this capacity was unlocked at certain periods in a child's life. I would also ask him what he thought of children that we regard as "prodigies" who can learn complex material at an early age.
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