Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

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.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.