https://www.pitara.com/tags/curiosity-and-learning/Recent content in Curiosity and Learning on Pitara Kids NetworkHugoen-usSat, 13 Jun 2026 21:46:31 +0530https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/the-king-who-tested-babies/Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:53:34 +0000https://www.pitara.com/non-fiction-for-kids/features-for-kids/the-king-who-tested-babies/<p>Children are always asking questions, like &lsquo;Why is the sky blue&rsquo;, or &lsquo;Why do we have only one nose&rsquo;. And sometimes they also open up things like clocks to understand how they work. Emperor Akbar was also like that — always wanting to know this or that. He continued to ask such questions even after becoming the emperor.</p> <p>Once he asked a very interesting question. How do babies learn to speak? Was it by listening to people talk? What if a child grew up in a place where there was no one to talk to? Would the baby learn to speak then? It was Akbar&rsquo;s view that children learnt to speak by hearing people&rsquo;s conversations. He decided to check it out.</p>