Quotes About Development

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

Since the human race's natural end is to make steady cultural progress, its moral end is to be conceived as progressing toward the better. And this progress may well be occasionally interrupted, but it will never be broken off.

O ser humano é aquilo que a educação faz dele.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él (Immanuel Kant)

It will take your breastfed baby an average of five to six months to double her birth weight.

Knowledge becomes really such only when it is assimilated in the mind of the learner and shows in his character.

What is important is to try to develop insights and wisdom rather than mere knowledge, respect someone's character rather than his learning, and nurture men of character rather than mere talents.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the world's democracies numbered fewer than a dozen. Since this imperfect United States of America became the recognized leader of the world, 80 percent of the countries on Planet Earth are either democracies or proto-democracies.

a good education is precisely designed to correct the instincts of human nature.

Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.

There is a time limit to how long a spirited young person can be kept in cold storage.

How had this weird idea been conceived, how had it grown until it seemed inevitable?

They haven't been standing still in the past.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Failure kind of comes in all sorts of ways, and teaches you all sorts of things. You learn by failing.

We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.

think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Talent is only a starting point.

Jer ako dodate samo malo na malo, i to ?esto ?inite, uskoro ?e malo postati veliko.

Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.

It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.