Quotes About Development

The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a caring adult. It is time for physical closeness and comfort, of quiet and harmony, of sharing ideas and emotions, laughing and learning together. The learning and benefit that take place are not only enjoyed by the child. Any adult who takes time to share books with small children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it, every time.

And to discuss them with one's own parents would have been quite impossible: horizontal divisions were far stronger in those days than vertical ones. Perhaps the psychologists were right, and the "child mind"—that convenient abstraction—matured earlier nowadays. On the other hand, she herself had outgrown dolls by the age of nine, and here was Judy, at eleven, buying a new one.

Children benefit, too, in surprising ways: research has shown that when men share housework and childcare, their kids do better in school and are less likely to see a child psychiatrist or be put on behavioral medication.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...

Will you tell me how long you have loved him? It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.

Il y a, je crois, en chacun de nous, un défaut naturel que la meilleure éducation ne peut arriver à faire disparaître.

Almost anything is possible with time

but time makes many changes.

The effect of education I suppose

It is always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you...

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humoured, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the

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had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Demographic transition is associated with an increase in the quality of health care and sanitation as well as improved access to education, especially for women.

Like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), Woolf 's first novel is a self-conscious meditation on the formation of an emergent intellectual and artist (a Ku¨nstlerroman).