What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to... -Alison Gopnik

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What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Alison Gopnik , Psychologist
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Alison Gopnik is an American psychologist and author known for her research on cognitive and language development in children. She has made significant contributions to the field of developmental psychology, shedding light on the minds of young children and challenging traditional theories of cognition.

Alison Gopnik Quotes to Explore

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash car...
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them....
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer....
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old....
Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their ...
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World...
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and...
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention....
Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise....
The thing that is most important is having people who are involved and engaged with the kids and also are not stressed and can be involved with them. ...

Knowledge Quotes to Explore

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them....
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others....
You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have....
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological repr...
Many things influence a person's eating habits. Knowledge of what is considered healthy and what is not would be one, but I doubt it would make it to ...
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice....
What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing...
Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their op...
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn....
It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful informatio...