Saturday, January 01, 2005

FYI 2005

One difficulty in the psychological sciences lies in the familiarity of the phenomena with which they deal. A certain intellectual effort is required to see how such phenomena can pose serious problems or call for intricate explanatory theories. One is inclined to take them for granted as necessary or somehow “natural.”

Noam Chomsky (1968) Language and Mind


No matter what philosophy of life we espouse, it is important to see childhood as a stage of life, not just as the anteroom to life.

David Elkind (2001) The Hurried Child


Mind and brain © 2005 Center for Mind and Brain
Mind and brain © 2005 Center for Mind and Brain