Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren.

To support the people we care about is intrinsic, it is not instrumental. It's not something we do because we're hoping to get some other outcome.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.