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Appointed director of studies at Geneva's Rousseau Institute, Piaget continued to investigate this phenomenon. He spent long hours observing the crib activity of his own three children, shot marbles on hands and knees with Genevan boys as he tested their ideas and feelings about ethics and the rules of games, and gently asked schoolchildren questions about the numbers and groupings of flowers and beads that he gave them to play with. His investigations led him to detailed observations on how children acquire such complicated concepts and abilities as space, geometry, causality, logic, moral judgment and memory. Le Patron...
...unadorned Word of God, and not in the papal teachings of the corrupt, corrupting, 16th century Roman Church. Zwingli thus became the architect of the Swiss Reformation. But he remains the least known of the great Protestant fathers. His story has now been told with sympathy and scholarship by Genevan Pastor-Historian Jean Rilliet, in Zwingli: Third Man of the Reformation (Westminster...
Knotty Business. No Genevan has smarted under the city's reputation as the abortion capital more than Antoine Pugin, head of the cantonal health department and a Catholic. Pugin laid down some stiff rules: hereafter, doctors authorized to approve abortions shall serve only three-year (instead of indefinite) terms. In this way, he dropped Dr. Flournoy. Also, doctors shall make quarterly reports, setting forth their reasons for granting permission in each case. Finally, Pugin decreed, all candidates for abortion must be observed for an indefinite period, at the canton's mental hospital and psychiatric clinic...
This was too much for John Calvin. One Genevan had written his Catholic cousin in France, reproaching him for allowing a heretic like Servetus to live unmolested in Catholic territory. When the cousin asked for details, Calvin gave the documentary proof that Dr. Michel de Villeneuve was indeed Michael Servetus, the man who had denounced the Trinity...
...difference between the round tables conducted here, and those held in a school of international studies, as at Geneva, for example, is very slight. The same fundamental languages, of English, French, and German, are spoken as freely at Brooks House, as in the Place de Musique. A Genevan School might well draw up its entire enrollment from the lists of students representing national groups at Harvard, and yet maintain high standards of work...