"When nobody read, dyslexia wasn't a problem. When most people had to hunt, a minor genetic variation in your ability to focus attention was hardly a problem, and may even have been an advantage. When most people have to make it through high school, the same variation can become a genuinely life-altering disease."

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Alison Gopnik is an American developmental psychologist and philosopher known for research on childhood learning and cognition.

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