Don't think too much

You spend all your days thinking through,

What is good or bad, false or true,

And what you may or may not do,

But where is the time for being you?

Book Notes

Title:

Howard Gardner (1982). Art, Mind, and Brain. Basic Books, New York.

Rating:

Not rated

p3: "Behaviourists claimed that we act in the way we do because we are reinforced for doing so and, given their focus on overt activity, these scholars denied inner life — no thoughts, no fantasies, no aspirations."

p7: "Piaget began to question children in depth, listened carefully to their responses, focussed especially on the strategies they used and the errors they made, and came up with a (then) startling conclusion — children at different ages construe the world in ways that are fundamentally different from those of adults.