Quotes About Development

Is it failure for morning to become afternoon?

What could he know at two months old, head like a question mark?

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.

an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile?

Sors de l'enfance, ami, revéille-toi!

Hasta entonces me había hablado de mí solo, como a un niño; desde aquel momento empezó a tratarme como a un hombre, y me habló de sí misma. Me

aunque nazca uno con algún talento, el arte de escribir no se aprende repentinamente. Remití

Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.

Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile? Is it not that he thereby returns to his primitive state, and that, while the animal which has acquired nothing and which also has nothing to lose, always retains its instinct, man, in losing through old age or other accidents all that his perfectibility has enabled him to acquire, thus falls even lower than the animal itself?

Sé que hay que ocupar a los niños en algo y que la ociosidad es para ellos el peligro más temible. ¿

Ses progrès dans la géométrie vous pourraient servir d'épreuve et de mesure certaine pour le développement de son intelligence : mais sitôt qu'il peut discerner ce qui est utile et ce qui ne l'est pas, il importe d'user de beaucoup de ménagement et d'art pour l'amener aux études spéculatives.

Respect childhood, and leave nature to act for a long time before you get involved with acting in its place.

Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.

There is quite another class of exceptions: those so gifted by nature that they rise above the level of their age. As there are men who never get beyond infancy, so there are others who are never, so to speak, children, they are men almost from birth. The

Without the study of books, such a memory as the child may possess is not left idle; everything he sees and hears makes an impression on him, he keeps a record of men's sayings and doings, and his whole environment is the book from which he unconsciously enriches his memory, till his judgment is able to profit by it.

If instead of making a child stick to his books I employ him in a workshop, his hands work for the development of his mind. While he fancies himself a workman he is becoming a philosopher.

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth? It was greater than any power the Builders had had, he was sure of that. The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison...

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.