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....

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....

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.....

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

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

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate....