Caring for children has always been one of the deepest and most satisfying things that a human being does, and yet it is hard to keep a healthy attit….

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention..

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the youn….

Preschool kids learn best when exploring, but kids in school learn best when they do things, interacting with a master. Unfortunately, our schools do….

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos..

I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being….

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lea….

Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over the question of how we know as much as we do despite our limited experiences. One way is to see….

All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what ….

Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing..

We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and resh….

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome..

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers..

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans..

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ….

You read a bunch of books and you get a bunch of how-tos, and you take a bunch of classes and you learn a bunch of techniques. You set yourself goals….

Children are the most amazing thing in the universe, as far as I'm concerned. If you're worrying about how it's going to turn out, you aren't experie….

We provide a secure, stable space for children to grow up in, so children will be able to take risks and have adventures and do things that are unexp….

Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes th….

I'm culturally Jewish but, like most scientists, an atheist: I don't believe there's a God or supernatural world. Buddhism offers guidance on what to….

We know that kids who grow up in an environment of warmth and support will thrive and function in whatever environment they find themselves. What we ….