Author: Alison Gopnik

Quotes

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

- Alison Gopnik

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.

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.

- Alison Gopnik

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

- Alison Gopnik

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.

- Alison Gopnik

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