In a rapidly changing environment, copying the effective behaviors of knowledgeable others could be a much more effective learning strategy.

Judging by their methods and their talents, we would do well to think of children not as scientists, but as anthropologists.

Your ability to retain and reproduce without understanding gives you time to reach that understanding.

Research outside of cognitive science tends to support findings in cognitive science, not contradict them.

Transmission and reinvention need not exclude each other.

Imitation—as the term is used in the literature—is not mindless parroting or mimicry.

Ostensive communication plays an especially pivotal role in the pervasiveness of human culture.

Educational progress relies less directly on inexorable technological advance and more on social institutions and behavioral change.

Why not start with an effective instructional orientation and tweak it rather than doubling down on ineffective pedagogy?

Words serve as tools to emphasize particular ways of thinking that were already available.

Most of what we know is a result of social transmissions from our superiors in status and knowledge.

Natural, hardwired dispositions of the brain are replaced by private formats that have to be worked at to be discovered and appreciated.

Child-centered, developmental education can easily lead to self-centered adulthood.

The Founders' resistance was not to book learning, but to the unearned authority of priestly dogma.

Effective communication requires the speaker to take into account the knowledge and perspective of the listener.

Repetition is a powerful and often underacknowledged aesthetic operative.

The only people who understood or admired this kind of music were other musicians.

Telling people about the meaning was a delightful experience for both sender and receiver.

As for the audience, if you find it, or something you can relate to yourself, why then, more power to you.

Prehistoric sites such as Stonehenge may represent memory spaces, constructed to contain the knowledge of the tribe.