ABSTRACT
According to her husband, Susan Isaacs emerged from her Malting House experience a broken and deeply humiliated woman. Susan wanted to use the observations of the records of the Malting House School that she had salvaged from the wreck of its demise to do more than confirm the success of her educational methods. The routes that had been used previously to investigate children's cognitive development were, for Susan, limited in their scope or misleading in their findings. Some psychologists, such as Charles Darwin in England and Wilhelm Stern in Germany, had studied their own children in their own homes. While Susan had been developing and testing her ideas at the Malting House School, a new and impressive figure had appeared on the scene. Inevitably when she began to write up her data she was greatly influenced by the published books and articles of the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget.
