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.
Alison GopnikBecoming 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.
Alison GopnikCaring, whether for children or the dying, shouldn't be instrumental. It should be an intrinsic, moral good.
Alison Gopnik