Sublime

Children won’t take in what you tell them until it makes sense to them. Other people don’t simply shape what children do; parents aren’t the programmers. Instead, they seem designed to provide just the right sort of information at just the right time to help the children reprogram themselves.

In this book we tell the story of the new science of children’s minds.

Understanding children has led us to understand ourselves in a new way.

One thing that science tells us is that nature has designed us to teach babies, as much as it has designed babies to learn.

Just as it’s important to infer the nature of other people’s minds in order to survive, it’s also important to infer the nature of the physical world.

Success in science is often a matter of finding the right analogies, and the computer gave us a new one.