“Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children mo...” — Alison Gopnik Quote

Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb.

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

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.

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.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26.

When training intelligently, 'one size doesn't fit all.' There are exercises and weights appropriate for some body types, ages, and overall objectives and not for others.

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.