In our era, a time when far more native…

In our era, a time when far more native equipment and earthy knowledge are attributed to the child, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading authorities on early childhood, has penned two books The Scientist in the Crib and The Philosophical Baby. (Readers of the present volume might wonder, "Is The Artistic Infant next?")

— from Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness an

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You learn dancing by dancing and the lute by playing the lute; the same is true of thinking and of living, where every experience can be a lesson if you let it. Children, in fact, are the world's great natural learners — fascinated, experimental, endlessly curious — and the tragedy of much schooling is that it trains the why out of them, dangling grades and if-then rewards until they no longer know why they are doing what they do. So protect your curiosity; approach the new with questions and let wonder pull you forward. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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