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How do children learn to speak?
Feb 08, 2019 |
Category: language
In chapter 2 of my book, Making Kids Cleverer, I discuss, David Geary's theory of biologically primary and secondary knowledge. Human beings seem to have various universal behaviours and characteristi...
'Understanding' and Occam's razor
Jun 24, 2017 |
Category: learning
At the beginning of the 20th century, physicists Hendrik Lorentz and Albert Einstein both concluded independently that measurements of light speed would be the same for all observers. But while both a...
Education isn't natural - that's why it's hard
Feb 23, 2017 |
Category: psychology
One of the most troubling conundrums in the field of education is that the common sense observation that children learn so many things simply by virtue of being immersed in an appropriate environment ...
Robots, evolution and why schools shouldn't worry about innate skills
Oct 13, 2016 |
Category: learning
It should come as little surprise to hear that some of what human beings can do is innate. That is to say, we are born with various capacities and abilities which appear to be 'hardwired' into our bra...
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