Quotes About Development

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

A lot of people think that to make a garden, all you have to do is put a few seeds in the ground. These are the same people who think that conceiving a baby makes you a good parent.

Planning cities is a necessary but risky business.

The more you learn, the more you need to learn. That's what life is.

Because you are in the middle of becoming who you will be. It isn't going to be easy. You may need help. So feel free to ask us for it.

What begins very badly can only get better.

The way things were going, if he was to become his woman's friend before he became her lover, they might never move on to the second stage of their relationship.

Where we begin is not necessarily our starting point. Every journey has it's mileposts.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.

Oona and Daphne had to figure out a way to adapt to the adult world, and not the other way around. This is an integral concept in French parenting.

When life goes on doesn't it just trample over what was there before?

against the houses, and turned the streets

All I needed was a little time. A time to get used to the creature who had broken from the chrysalis; the wings yet were feeble and uncertain.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Bend like the sapling you are. With time we shall find your oaken core.

Patients who were rarely praised as children, often distrust the positive things people say about them as adults. A child's concept of self is formed in childhood and it takes a long time with many affirmative examples to turn that self-concept around.

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting different results.

to explore or deal with the world in any normal way. And attachment disorder doesn't just affect the relationship with the mother; it affects all social, emotional, and cognitive development. If the child doesn't experience attachment, that child can't move forward to step two—trusting and emotionally attaching to others and, eventually, sexually attaching to others. In other words, you can't grow emotionally if you didn't have infant attachment.

Children who are given adult responsibilities when they're too young to handle them are forever after worried about properly fulfilling their responsibilities; they never seem to accept that they were too young to manage the task but instead internalize their failure to accomplish it.

Patients who are rarely praised as children often distrust the positive things people say about them as adults. A child's concept of self is formed in childhood and it takes a long time, with many affirmative examples, to turn that self-concept around.

It is necessary, then, to give the child the possibility of developing according to the laws of his nature, so that he can become strong, and, having become strong, can do even more than we dared hope for him. —Maria Montessori

Look at education as a continuous life long journey.

Many people have so much more potential than where they are right now.

It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.