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• ‟ Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.

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• ‟ We say that children are bad at paying attention, but we really mean that they're bad at not paying attention - they easily get distracted by anything interesting.

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• ‟ Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.

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• ‟ Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

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• ‟ I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

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• ‟ The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

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• ‟ I'm the oldest of six children and I had my own first baby when I was 23. So I've always been interested in babies, and I had lots of opportunities to watch them.

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• ‟ Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

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• ‟ What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

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• ‟ Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and ideas of other scientists. The recent studies show that children also learn in these ways.

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