If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape … - Alison Gopnik

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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

Alison Gopnik

If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the kind of adult you wanted. There's almost this kind of competitive enterprise. That picture is the picture I think people often imply when they use the word "parenting".

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