The More Obsessively We Focus

We Fear Death So Profoundly, Not Because It Means The End Of Our Body, But Because It Means The End Of Our Consciousness - Better To Be A Spirit In Heaven Than A Zombie On Earth.

Teaching Is A Very Effective Way To Get Children To Learn Something Specific - This Tube Squeaks, Say, Or A Squish Then A Press Then A Pull Causes The Music To Play. But It Also Makes Children Less Likely To Discover Unexpected Information And To Draw Unexpected Conclusions.

The Best Scientific Way To Discover If One Factor Influences Another Is To Do A Controlled Experiment.

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.

Caring For Children Has Always Been One Of The Deepest And Most Satisfying Things That A Human Being Does, And Yet It Is Hard To Keep A Healthy Attitude Toward It In Our Competitive, Outcome-oriented Society.