Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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Alison Gopnik was a contemporary American psychologist. Alison Gopnik is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the Berkeley AI research group. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, including the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Read more on Wikipedia →