- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I say is from an evolutionary point of view: probably the ideal rich environment for a baby includes more mud, livestock, and relatives than most of us could tolerate nowadays.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed and can be involved with them. And that's actually not boring and banal. That actually takes a lot of work to make that happen, and it's not something that our society does very well at all.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we want in students is creativity and a willingness to fail. I always say to students, 'If you've never at some point stayed up all night talking to your new boyfriend about the meaning of life instead of preparing for the test, then you're not really an intellectual.'
- Consulting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think universities are trying to figure out how we could use what we know about learning to change our education system, but it is sort of funny that they don't necessarily seem to be consulting the people who are sitting right there on campus.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020