The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn

The blank-slate assumption is clearly wrong: babies are born with considerable core knowledge, a rich set of universal assumptions about the environment that they will later encounter. Their brain circuits are well organized at birth and give them strong intuitions in all sorts of domains: objects, people, time, space, numbers. . . . Their statisti

The first is the child’s hunger to explore and probe its surroundings