WORLD OF LEARNING: INNATE KINDNESS

"The Moral Life of Babies" New York Times 5/3/10

While working with children over the last decade plus, I've always felt that most have an innate sense of fairness and empathy. Kids love to help, so much so that I am often pressed for ways in which they can do so. Paul Bloom, his wife and their team of researchers at the Infant Cognition Center at Yale are making the case that infants come equipped with a sense of what is good for others as well as themselves. The video accompanying the article is wonderful.