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We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.
Alison Gopnik
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Alison Gopnik
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 16
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One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
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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 do in a world without God: It opines that truly being present in the world‚ experiencing and hanging out with your loved ones, provides all the significance you could want.
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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.
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Caring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.
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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.
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We don't measure the quality of our other relationships by how well the other person turns out, for instance whether my husband is a better person after 10 years than he was when I first met him.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
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Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: how should this society work? How should relationships among people work? The exploration is: who am I, what am I doing?
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The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
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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.
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
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Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
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Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
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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 attitude toward it in our competitive, outcome-oriented society.
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We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.
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