It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week,… — David Elkind Ability Copy Share Image
If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read… — David Elkind Children Copy Share Image
The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the… — David Elkind Able Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature… — David Elkind Adults Copy Share Image
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially… — David Elkind Age Copy Share Image
There's enough evidence that variation in sexual orientation is more a function of genes than of environment and for that reason alone,… — David Elkind Accepted Copy Share Image
