“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

Parents of young children will be aware of the need to encourage early reading and maths skills in their kids. They know it’s important to make time to read with their children. Or point out that “cat ...