The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch … - Alison Gopnik
The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch …
- Alison Gopnik
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 … - Alison Gopnik
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 …
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 … - Alison Gopnik
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. - Alison Gopnik
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans. - Alison Gopnik
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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… - Alison Gopnik
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…
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. - Alison Gopnik
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.
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lea… - Alison Gopnik
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous lea…
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the youn… - Alison Gopnik
From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the youn…
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