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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
Alison Gopnik
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Alison Gopnik
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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