Education should aim at developing a kind of person who knows how to live well. School instruction fails to accomplish this. Customarily, learning is acquired through example and emulation, rather than through teaching of rules and precepts. Implications for teaching science, mathematics, history, and religion are discussed. (PP)

This paper discusses Piagetian theory on children's cognitive development and its relevance to an early childhood science program. Children, at different stages of their development, exhibit characteristics of behavior or of thinking which may or may not affect how and what they learn in the classroom. It is suggested that subject-matter content,…