Alison Gopnik discusses her book The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children.

Gopnik is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally recognized leader in the study of children’s learning and development, Gopnik writes the “Mind and Matter” column for The Wall Street Journal and is the author of The Philosophical Baby and coauthor of The Scientist in the Crib