In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on Delayed gratification — and how it can predict future success. With priceless video of kids trying their hardest not to eat the marshmallow.

Trevor Eissler "Montessori Madness!" - 321 FastDraw
Fantastic description of Montessori Method.  

Baby Brain on Language – TED Talk by Patricia Kuhl
At TEDxRainier, Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies implicitly learn one language over another and explains what makes them the tiny linguistic geniuses they are. Babies learn by interacting with the humans around them and implicitly “taking statistics” on the sounds they need to know. And the younger they are, the more susceptible their brains are to being shaped by this information. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.