美国教育心理学家皮亚杰做过一个实验。他发现,他10个月大的儿子老是把面包撕成碎片往地上扔,还非常专注地观察面包的落点。小孩丢东西的行为并不少见,很多父母在捡起这些东西时,会告诉孩子乱扔东西是不对的,却很少去考虑小孩子扔东西的动机。皮亚杰发现,那可能是孩子在探索和学习万有引力的过程:面包为什么会落下去?这其实是孩子正在通过自己的实验,认识这个世界。 Piaget, an American educational psychologist, did an experiment. He found that his 10-month-old son had often torn the loaves of bread into the ground and watched the bread very carefully. It is not uncommon for a child to throw something, and many parents tell their children what to throw when picking up these things, but seldom consider the motivation of a child to throw things. Piaget found that it might be the child’s process of exploring and learning gravitation: why does bread fall? This is actually how children are learning about the world through their experiments.