What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

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.

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.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.