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Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Asking Asking Questions Born Brains Children Deeply Drive Explanations Food Least Literally Questions Quite Rooted Seeking Water Were Young Young Children

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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.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Across Altruism Bunch Capacity Children Climb Drop Empathy Even Give Go Great Pen Recent Room Shows Study Will You Youngest

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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 ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Also Analyze Children Data Experiments Ideas Learn Other Patterns Recent Scientists Show Statistical Studies Three Ways World

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Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Age Ages Anxious Babies Books Children More More And More Ours Parents Reading Reading Books Until Womb Younger

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From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to master the things they will need to know in order to survive as adults.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Adult Breathing Childhood Children Designed Evolutionary Gives Immaturity Know Learn Literally Master Need Order Period Perspective Protected Special Survive Things Time To Survive Will Young

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The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Children Collaborating Computer Detail Excitement How Learn Much Quickly Real Scientists Starting Understand

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I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Always Babies Baby Been Children First Had Interested Lots My Own Oldest Opportunities Own Six Them Watch

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Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Been Children Developmental Difficult Fortunately Graduate Graduate School History Me Most Philosophy Place Psychology Putting Real Revolution School Scientific Started Taking Together Very Would

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Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the other people around them and imagine all the many ways that people could be.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Actually Around Childhood Children Could Forms Friends Help Imaginary Imagine Many Other People Play Pretend Research Shows Them Understand Ways Weirder

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Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Achievements Been Children Deepest Dilemmas Greatest Intense Joys Like Moral Most Parents Some Source Think I Think

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