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Alison Gopnik

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?'
— Alison Gopnik relationships
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 children
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
— Alison Gopnik care
If parents are the fixed stars in the child's universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
— Alison Gopnik time
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
— Alison Gopnik children
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.
— Alison Gopnik death
On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.
— Alison Gopnik lost
We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
— Alison Gopnik education
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 time
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
— Alison Gopnik rain
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
— Alison Gopnik travel
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
— Alison Gopnik love
What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.
— Alison Gopnik people
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
— Alison Gopnik technology
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
— Alison Gopnik life
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
— Alison Gopnik children
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
— Alison Gopnik good
One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.
— Alison Gopnik love
Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.
— Alison Gopnik music
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 children
Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.
— Alison Gopnik good
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 men
I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.
— Alison Gopnik funny
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
— Alison Gopnik work
Siblings are the guarantors that the private childhood world - so unlike the adult world that scientists are only just beginning to understand it - is a fully shared and objective one.
— Alison Gopnik world
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?
— Alison Gopnik relationships

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