In order to illustrate the discrepancies between Jean Piaget’s four stages of cognitive development, my Educational Psychology TA showed my classmates and I a video of a second grade class learning simple addition and subtraction. However, while watching the video, it wasn’t Jean Piaget I was thinking of. The video reminded me of democracy in its simplest form, and how, despite all of the education we may receive, nothing can save us from the inner child within all of us.

  I planned on posting two videos. Unfortunately, however, the embedded code for the Jean Piaget video was “disabled by request,” so I can only post a clip of the British Parliament’s House of Commons during one of their weekly “Questions for the Prime Minister” sessions. Please, please, I strongly advise that you click on this link to the Jean Piaget video before viewing the Parliament video.  If you do, the parallels between the two clips may be surprising.

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