Babies Changing the World

08/01/2016

To be successful, one has to be one of three bees - the queen bee, the hardest working bee, or the bee that does not fit in.
Suzy Kassem, Egyptian-American poet

Alison Gopnik writes in her book The Philosophical Baby, "Babies love to learn…. They are open to all the richness of the wide world.

"When they play, children actively experiment on the world and they use the results of those experiences to change what they think. The statistics they observe and the experiments they perform help them make new causal maps of the world around them."

"Very young children can use their causal maps of the world — their theories — to imagine different ways that the world might be.” Experiences and interactions continue to shape ideas allowing children to create, pretend, and imagine. "Eventually, they enable even adults to imagine alternative ways the world could be and make those alternatives real."

Contributed by Christine Kiewra

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