What do you think how much infants know? I could get this question while I read the first page in the book. Before I read the book, I guess babies may not know anything like a white paper and, they can learn the world after birth. In the book, the author also said that adults misunderstand children such as “children were essentially defective adults… children’s knowledge was like poetry but not like science.” The first chapter answers children’s knowledge.
The author suggests that “babies are a kind of very special computer.” The babies already know how to deal about people, things and language. Their thinking is programmed by evolution. Thus, they have the system when they are born.
Many experts agreed with this opinion that babies know much more than we think. Socrates though “children have virtue in their genetic code.” Also, Piaget showed that “babies’ view of the world was so complex, and as highly structured, as the adult view. And babies were searching for the truth about the world around them.”
Sometimes we are surprised when children do unsuspected acts or talk like an adult. So, that the author describes a baby as “special computer” points out babies are smarter and acquire much more and faster something than we though. After now on, I’ll read about how the children learn about people, things and language. I expect that I can get new information
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