Jean Piaget, a psychologist and pioneer in the study of child intelligence, was born in Switzerland in 1896. At age 10, he managed his first 26 , a description of a partly albino sparrow he observed in a public park. At age 15, he 27 to devote his life to developing a biological explanation of knowledge.
He began his career as a zoologist, 28 mollusks and their adaptations to their environment. 29 age 21, he had already published 25 professional papers on that topic. Later, after working with Alfred Binet in Paris, he became interested in levels of logic used by children taking standardized tests on intelligence. Piaget 30 to establish a body of psychology all his life and became a very influential figure in educational psychology. His works were all written originally in French and were later translated into English.
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