Quotes About Development

I still have trouble imagining the coach of a group of eight- or nine-year-old players actually wasting time teaching systems. The greatest system any coach can pass along is allowing kids to create and refine skills. Systems need to come into play only much later, if ever.

I can't remember any of those coaches ever telling me to chip the puck off the boards when things got tough in our own end. We were allowed to try things, creative moves that could get us out of jams on the ice (or into them). That kind of coaching would show itself in the way I played as a professional years later. Without that background of guidance from my minor hockey coaches, I doubt I could ever have become the player I did.

Bucko allowed me to go with my first instinct on the ice: never get rid of the puck when you can control it. Hold on to it, and let the play open up in front of you. And again, it keeps coming back to those days on outdoor rinks or rivers or bays, where we simply skated and handled the puck for hours on end. That training allowed me to do the things I did as a player, and my coaches in turn allowed those skills to develop.

That was the way we learned how to play the game, and you develop your skills pretty quickly in a pitched battle on that scale. After all, if you wanted to spend any amount of time with the puck on your stick, you had to learn how to stickhandle through ten opponents. That's a great environment for kids to develop skills while at the same time having a ton of fun.

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

Förbättra dig. Det enda du kan göra för att göra världen bättre är att förbättra dig själv.

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I have never understood, for example, how come a child can climb up on the roof, scale the TV antenna, and rescue the cat ... yet cannot walk down the hallway without grabbing both walls with his grubby hands for balance.

We have only scratched the surface of what would be possible if end users could freely program their own applications,

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Entrepreneurial capitalism takes more people out of poverty than aid.

I'm not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there's a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

Carl Jung observed that the very things that made you successful in the first half of your life not only no longer

It is not an exaggeration to say U2 began to write our own songs because we couldn't play other people's. Baby steps for a baby band.

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

Too often, it seems to me, in missionary and educational work among underdeveloped races, people yield to the temptation of doing that which was done a hundred years before, or is being done in other communities a thousand miles away. The temptation often is to run each individual through a certain educational mould, regardless of the condition of the subject or the end to be accomplished.

Education is not a thing apart from life—not a "system," nor a philosophy; it is direct teaching how to live and how to work.

If you are milking cows and feel that you know all that there is to be known about it, you have simply reached the point where you are useless and unfitted for the work.

They had not fully outgrown the idea that it was hardly the proper thing for them to use their hands, since they had come there, as one of them expressed it, "to be educated, and not to work." Gradually, though, I noted with satisfaction that a sentiment in favour of work was gaining ground.

they are glad that we started as we did, and built ourselves up year by year, by a slow and natural process of growth.

Not quite so long ago as a generation, there was no panting giant here, no heaving, grimy city . . . there was time to live.