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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…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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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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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone,…
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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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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
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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…
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Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.
— Hayao Miyazaki
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You may have heard about living today, tomorrow, or "tonow." Tonow, children tell us, is a gift, which is why we call…
— Bernie Siegel
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When I am grappling with ideas which are radical enough to upset grown-ups, then I am likely to put these ideas into…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…
— Richard Dawkins
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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and…
— Mark Haddon
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Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that…
— Mitch Albom
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One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help…
— Alison Gopnik
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