Trusting What Youre Told

Discusses how children obtain and analyze information from their outside world and how it affects their own thinking patterns, from elementary school vegetarians to how children perceive death and the afterlife.

Auteur
Paul L. Harris is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University.

Texte du rabat

If children were little scientists who learn best through firsthand observations and mini-experiments, how would a child discover that the earth is round never mind conceive of heaven as a place someone might go after death? Trusting What Yoüre Told begins by reminding us of a basic truth: Most of what we know we learned from others.