The child psychologist Alison Gopnik has . . . Alison Gopnik, “New Research Shows That Teaching Kids More and More, at Ever-Younger Ages, May Backfire,” Slate, March 16, 2011; Gopnik’s quote about kids being the R&D division of the human species is from her appearance on ABC’s Nightline, April 2, 2010; her views on similarities between children’s learning and scientific learning appear in her paper “Scientific Thinking in Young Children,” published at the University of California, Berkeley, and also appearing on the website of Science, September 28, 2012,
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