Quotes About Development

Better the day, better the deed.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been there from the beginning, just as the propensity for the formation of atoms, molecules, galaxies, and organic compounds must have been there from the beginning.

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

The most effectual process is that of improving the condition of man by means of his interest.

science is the salvation narrative of modernity.

Conceiving a development project without women's participation is like using only four fingers when we have ten.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.

Adults who believe in the Little Adult Assumption are going to rely heavily on words and reasons in trying to change the behavior of young kids. And words and reasons are going to be miserable failures much of the time.

Your kids are little. Both their bodies and their brains are still growing. No

They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they will have a major fit if they don't get it. Consequently, it is the parent's job—and the teacher's job—to help kids gradually learn frustration tolerance. In accomplishing this goal, adults need to be gentle, consistent, decisive, and calm.

Childhood is a period of transitory psychosis.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

she quoted the Spanish proverb, "The oak tree is in the acorn.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.