Comments on: Are Children "Natural Scientists" or not? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/20/are-children-natural-scientists-or-not/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 15:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/20/are-children-natural-scientists-or-not/#comment-496164 Wed, 27 May 2015 16:56:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14413#comment-496164 Translation Guide

“A pernicious myth”: Warning — strong bias ahead…

“[children] are born with something that gets beaten or worn out of them”: Warning — strong cynicism ahead…

“… leads us into bad habits of thought”: Warning — the Thought Police are unhappy; please stop thinking critically and adhere to the party line…

“‘Thinking like a researcher’ is not the same thing as a natural curiosity and mental plasticity”: Warning — Desperate attempts to reframe using falsehoods…

“but I admit to being entirely ignorant of child development”: Warning — I feel a guilty compulsion to discredit myself, so now please disregard everything I just stated since it’s all bullshit.

]]> By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/20/are-children-natural-scientists-or-not/#comment-496163 Wed, 27 May 2015 16:48:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14413#comment-496163 Want to ruin children properly? Teach them to politicize everything, including science.

]]> By: Fran https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/20/are-children-natural-scientists-or-not/#comment-496162 Wed, 27 May 2015 14:06:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=14413#comment-496162 Children are little researchers, they can understand thing a lot better than us, they are learning faster. For them is a lot easier to understand science, and have a lot of ideas.

]]>