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1. "Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments." ~ Alison Gopnik
2. "One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood." ~ Alison Gopnik
3. "Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer." ~ Alison Gopnik
4. "The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment." ~ Alison Gopnik
5. "What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers." ~ Alison Gopnik
6. "Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways." ~ Alison Gopnik
7. "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." ~ Alison Gopnik
8. "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." ~ Alison Gopnik
9. "Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both." ~ Alison Gopnik
10. "Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct." ~ Alison Gopnik
11. "Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer." ~ Alison Gopnik
12. "If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old." ~ Alison Gopnik
13. "Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise." ~ Alison Gopnik
14. "I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them." ~ Alison Gopnik
15. "On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city." ~ Alison Gopnik
16. "The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect." ~ Alison Gopnik
17. "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 Gopnik
18. "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." ~ Alison Gopnik
19. "Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going." ~ Alison Gopnik
20. "The 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 Gopnik

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