Quotes About Development

The most important thing a developer can do for a learner is to listen in an active way. This includes hearing not only what is said, but also how it is said and what it means; recognizing, then encouraging or challenging, the learner's patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, particularly those that support or detract from the learner's goals and ultimate growth; and having the experience, intuition, and wisdom to know when to just listen and when to say or do something.

Being a mom is more than being cook, chauffeur, maid, counselor, doctor, referee, disciplinarian, etc. (just to name a few). It's about molding character, building confidence, nurturing, training, and guiding.

Los rostros jóvenes son como esos cuadernos bellamente empastados que venden en las papelerías con las páginas en blanco. Sólo el tiempo pone palabras en los rostros, historias, carácter.

Non so quando, ma so che in tanti siamo venuti in questo secolo per sviluppare arti e scienze, porre i semi della nuova cultura che fiorirà, inattesa, improvvisa, proprio quando il potere si illuderà di avere vinto.

Real problems follow upon each other in a way which makes sense to the intellectual imagination.

In that dark night which shrouds from our eyes the most remote antiquity, a light appears which cannot lead us astray; I speak of this incontestable truth: the social world is certainly the work of man.

I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve [...] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee , y, por lo tanto, la mayoría de las veces, es un ser «reblandecido por la televisión», adicto de por vida a los videojuegos.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

Then what happened next happened.

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

W]e are basically more similar to our patients than we are different from them. The psychological mechanisms in pathological states are merely extensions of principles involved in normal developmental functioning. Doctor and patient are both human beings. [...] [C]ountertransference in the psychiatrist and transference in the patient are essentially identical processes - each unconsciously experiences the other as someone from the past.

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

This is important because so often the path to establishing the confidence and engagement of a young person is through growing their strengths rather than concentrating on what is wrong with them.

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.

We have found over and over again that a child at home with mother can learn as much in an hour as the average child learns in a day at school; as much in a day as the average child learns in a week at school.

Así pues, lo único que debe hacer usted para enseñar cualquier cosa a su niño pequeño es organizarse de tal modo que le cause placer. Y eso no significa jugar. Los niños no quieren jugar, lo que quieren es aprender.

Supón que a más niños se les introduzca en el gran almacén del conocimiento acumulado por el hombre cuatro o cinco años antes de lo que se hace ahora. Imagina el resultado si Einstein pudiera haber tenido cinco años más de vida creativa. Imagina lo que podría ocurrir si los niños pudieran empezar a asimilar la sabiduría y el conocimiento del mundo años antes de lo que se les permite ahora.

No pida a su hijo que diga en voz alta las respuestas. Permítale siempre elegir entre dos respuestas posibles.

It is a basic tenet of all teaching that it should begin with the known and the concrete, progress from this to the new and the unknown, and last of all, to what is abstract. Nothing could be more abstract to the two-year-old brain than the letter b. It is a tribute to the genius of children that they ever learn it. It

Divide las parejas en dos juegos de cinco parejas cada uno. Muestra cada juego tres veces al día durante cinco días (o menos). Después de cinco días, retira una pareja de cada juego y añade una nueva pareja a cada juego. Sigue añadiendo una pareja nueva a cada juego y retira una antigua cada día.

Bucky solía decir que todos los niños nacen genios y que se pasan los seis primeros años de vida perdiendo su genialidad.

the last decade can be regarded as "the lost decade" because no improvements in flight safety matters have been made in that period.