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#curiosity
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Five ingredients of the intelligence stew
Many ingredients make up the human intelligence stew, and I’d like to describe five that I think you would do well to consider as you contemplate your child’s intellectual gifts. They are: • The desire to explore • Self-control • Creativity • Verbal communication • Interpreting…
Inquisitiveness, the innovator's DNA
What traits separate creative, visionary people who consistently conjure up financially successful ideas from less imaginative, managerial types who carry them out? Two business researchers explored that simple question. They conducted a whopping six-year study with more than…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
The free spirit overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe
With a sardonic laugh he overturns whatever he finds veiled or protected by any reverential awe: he would see what these things look like when they are overturned. It is wilfulness and delight in the wilfulness of it, if he now, perhaps, gives his approval to that which has…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Bollywood yarns and gossip
Encouraged by that febrile curiosity, Cliff De Souza spun out yarns about the Bollywood stars, and Chandra Mehta added titillating ruffles of gossip throughout.
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
To trade smth for smth else
My curiosity ignited, I grabbed my Kindle and purchased the book. One minute later, it had finished downloading. For the rest of the day, I traded book writing for reading.
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Children's interests drive the curriculum
“The child’s own instincts and powers furnish the material and give the starting-point for all education” (6). According to Dewey, children’s interests form the basis for curriculum planning. He believed that the interests and background of each child and group must be…
A project that leaves children curious
This story is an example of what Dewey would call an educational experience. The teacher observed and asked questions to find out what the children already knew. She set up experiences for them to discover things they didn’t already know. She used her knowledge of child…
Attachment: a safe base for exploring
This engaging of adults is part of what we call attachment. It is a special bond between babies and the significant adults in their lives. When a securely attached baby is in the presence of these adults, her sense of security and comfort is heightened. The baby uses the adults…