Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
Alison GopnikThe brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
Alison GopnikCaring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.
Alison GopnikI think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have had the deep satisfactions of being parents and being children in the way that they might have and are going to spend a lot of time fretting and worrying and being hovered over for nothing. The question isn't so much "What will happen in the long run?" but "What's happening to people's lives right now?"
Alison Gopnik