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....

If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with....

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren....

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....

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

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children,....

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future....