Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do mat...h. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A child who thinks he is good at something even if he is not--soccer, math, violin--is likely to be more resilient than a child wh...o is never satisfied with his efforts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For three hundred years the idea that nurture is the determining factor in human actions has been used to argue for a variety of s...ocial programs--if we can only change people's environments, the argument goes, we can make a better humanity; reduce crime, fight poverty, get rid of the sex difference in math. This creed is usually associated with the politics of the Left. On the other hand, if nature is responsible for much of what we are--heavily influencing such things as intelligence, personality traits, perhaps even propensity to commit crimes--then there are limits to what social programs can do to reduce the individual differences between people. This conviction is often thought to fit better with the politics of the Right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »