Piaget's results were once treated skeptically, because "they contradict the traditional assumption that children are much like adults, except more ignoratn." But these results and their implications have survived many subtle challenges.
"What is the significance, then, of evidence that the yough children do possess methods that could give correct answers -- and yet they do not use those abilities? As far as I can see, such evidence would only further support the need for explanations like those of Papert and Piaget."
(NB: Personally, I'm not so sure that Papert and Piaget are generating similar, or even complementary, explanations.)
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