Becoming An Adult Means Leaving

The Largest And Most Powerful Computers Are Still No Match For The Smallest And Weakest Humans.

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.

Animals Are Certainly More Sophisticated Than We Used To Think. And We Shouldn't Lump Together Animals As A Group. Crows And Chimps And Dogs Are All Highly Intelligent In Very Different Ways.

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.

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.