Quotes About Development

All told, a cell may need three weeks to finish meiosis.

If you stop and think through what it means to grow, the process is astonishing. Each part of the body has to change its shape and size to match every other part. There's no central blueprint for the construction of an adult human. Each cell has to decide for itself, using nothing more than chemical signals and its own network of genes, RNA molecules, and proteins.

To reach that conclusion, testing advocates had to ignore all sorts of experiences that could influence the scores—especially those in early childhood, when the brain is still developing.

Stwierdzili, ?e komórki synów znajdowaÅ'y siÄ™ w mózgach matek, gdzie rozrosÅ'y siÄ™ i produkowaÅ'y neuroprzeka?niki. Ich synowie pomogli im ksztaÅ'towa? myÅ›li.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example, your will is already opening your gap, little by little." "What gap are you talking about?" "There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will.

La lucha que cada uno libra contra su antiguo ser dura toda la vida.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

Are you an idiot? I'm in training.

History is biology's dumping ground

Il vero odio è un sentimento che si impara col tempo.

En la juventud, el talento, el genio, si se deja sin atender, se tuerce y se come al que lo posee. Hay que ponerle cauce. Apoyo.

As a child she'd remember everything. Everything. Then children grow up, and you no longer know what they think or what they feel. And that's how it should be, I suppose.

A large part of the mythology that develops around each of these doctrines, from its liturgy to its rules and taboos, comes from the bureaucracy generated as they develop and not from the supposed supernatural act that originated them.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way round.

As a child she'd remember everything. Everything. Then children grow up, and you no longer know what they think or what they feel. And that's how it should be, I suppose.

Todo en la vida lo ha hecho alguien antes, al menos lo que vale la pena hacer. El truco está en tratar de hacerlo un poco mejor.

Al que no aprende idiomas el cerebro se le convierte en puré de coliflor.

I always had plenty of ideas. I didn't exactly have them. They grew—little by little, a half an idea at a time. First, part of a phrase and then a person to go with it. After a person, then a little corner of a place for the person to be in.

Piaget has helped teachers of young children to see how important it is for children to experience whatever we want them to learn about.

Erikson felt that the early childhood years were critical in children's development of trust, autonomy

This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?

I draw on the work of Piaget (1968) in identifying conflict as the harbinger of growth and also on the work of Erikson (1964) who, in charting development through crisis, demonstrates how a heightened vulnerability signals the emergence of a potential strength, creating a dangerous opportunity for growth, a turning point for better or worse (p. 139).

From surfeit to loss is a short line.