Quotes by : Alison Gopnik

Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers....

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention....

We decided to become development psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians.....

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is....

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents....

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning....

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians.....

We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding,....

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows....

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention....