Superficially babies look like they're pretty useless - even worse than useless because they require so much time and effort in care.
But it turns out children both know more and learn much more than we ever thought before.
There is a connection between long childhood and broadbased learning.
Babies could be described as statistic focused scientists. They constantly learn how the world works exactly the same way that rigorous scientists learn - by creating a hypothesis, test and retesting and learning how things do and don't work.
In the span of a humans development it seems like it may consist of a 'division of labour' - as children we are completely protected and all we have to do is learn. It's kind of like babies are 'the research and development' department of the human species.
Adults on the other hand are mature and more rigid like the marketing and production of the species - taking all the good ideas we learned as children and going about out day to day adult lives narrowly inching along like caterpillars.
Childhood is designed almost exclusively for learning. The babies brain it turns out is the most powerful learning computer on the planet. And surprise! In some research tests children aged four could prove an unlikely hypothesis much better than adults. So children are way more creative learners as well.
With these new insights what can we do to help our super creative scientific genius children - and moreso - what can we learn from children that could make our adult lives more wonderful?
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