Sentence examples for infant minds from inspiring English sources
I can see that Samuel Beckett's tough advice "fail again, fail better" is not best suited to infant minds; no one wishes to see pupils discouraged by impossible standards.
Yet the poetry the young really read or listened to at the opening of the 19th century was not Blake but Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804), by "Several Young Persons," including Ann and Jane Taylor.
Everything which this instrument picked up seemed to my infant mind vilely unpalatable.
But that was because my infant mind believed they were called Patrick Thistle, and my middle name is Patrick.
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke and her ideas about the development of the infant mind… Writer visits Spelke at Harvard's Laboratory for Developmental Studies.
Yet what is most depressing about the film is not the low strike rate of its zingers, or what Freudians will diagnose as its anal fixation, so typical of the infant mind, but the comic complacency.
By Margaret Talbot The New Yorker, September 4, 2006 P. 90 A REPORTER AT LARGE about cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke and her ideas about the development of the infant mind… Writer visits Spelke at Harvard's Laboratory for Developmental Studies.
Decoding Infants' Gaze Dr. Spelke is a pioneer in the use of the infant gaze as a key to the infant mind — that is, identifying the inherent expectations of babies as young as a week or two by measuring how long they stare at a scene in which those presumptions are upended or unmet.
This neuroscientist believes that the emotional experience of a newborn boy being cut in this intimate way by an authority figure, and a source of what should be love and protection, does imprint itself on the infant mind and create, potentially, a particular later orientation toward authority and risk.
Here, the film seems to stray perilously into Jar Jar Binks territory – but while smaller children will warm to Bing Bong as a cuddly oddity, adults and older kids will see something quite troubling in a figure that's manifestly a primitive creation of the infant mind, poignantly fated to extinction.
