But he studied development of the individual child because he was convinced that this development will tell him about the development of knowledge more generally.

但是,由于他深信,个体儿童的发展,能够表现出认识发展的一般规律,所以他才选择去研究个体儿童的发展

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He was very interested in saying, "Look. We'll figure how a kid develops and that will tell us about the development of knowledge more generally."

他常说,"只要能够理解儿童如何发展,就能够理解认识发展的一般规律"

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We are the oddballs in the history of the human race, and anybody who follows our pattern, and it's important to realize that because there's nothing inevitable about the development that has come about to be characteristic of the world.

我们美国人,以及其他与我们采用同一政体的国家,是人类历史中的异类,明白这一点很重要,因为这个世界发展的规律就是,没有什么是必然的

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