Piaget's Argument Analysis

The moment a child opens their eyes, they begin learning and adapting to this new world. When a child begins formal education, a child does not start as a blank slate. Instead, they have a set of their own experiences and their own way of thinking and problem-solving skills. These ways of thinking are schemas. Piaget’s argument is that our schemas are ever changing and this is especially so as a child because their brains are still highly plastic and are constantly learning and developing cognitively.
A student’s goal is to make sense of any and all information presented to them. In order to do so, we must compare and connect it to what we already know. As a toddler, a child learns the letters and numbers; in elementary, a student learns multiplication