Quotes About Development

the way they put it, we as a society have decided not to modify the society but to modify the children.

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit.

teaching should not be compared to filling a bottle with water but rather to helping a flower to grow in its own way.

but unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they're going to remain victims.

Una reforma de los primeros niveles de la educación podía provocar cambios sociales significativos.

This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. If these structures can't meet that challenge, they should be dismantled—and, anarchists believe, "refashioned from below," as commentator Nathan Schneider observes. In

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

The reduction of man to an appurtenance of the machine, a specialized tool of production, might in principle be overcome, rather than enhanced, with the proper development and use of technology, but not under the conditions of autocratic control of production by those who make man an instrument to serve their ends, overlooking his individual purposes

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit. If

History doesn't go in a straight line... Over time there's a kind of a general trajectory towards a more just society, with regressions and reversals of course.

I don't have anything against bulldozers; I think they're great. It's a lot better than digging with a shovel.

I don't have anything against bulldozers. I think they're great. A lot easier than digging with a shovel.

Education should not be a matter of pouring water into a vessel [...] it should be conceived as laying out a string along which learners proceed in their own ways, exercising and improving their creative capacities and imaginations, and experiencing the joy of discovery.

The Vietnam War was fought to prevent Vietnam from becoming a successful model of economic and social development for the Third World.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Studies show adolescent males often make decisions based on sex. Many fail to grow out of it.

Continuity, he thought, wasn't the same as stagnation.

theres only a little bit of that boy i got stuck with all those years ago left in there nick and its the best part

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST

happening to and

Griff's taking out another wall or two at the old

didn't surprise Jake, he'd been watching it build all along.