Quotes About Development

She is insolently grown-up for her size. I suspect the influence of unsupervised reading.

Talking about ideas for a novel is a bit like showing pictures of the ultrasound if you're pregnant. Until they're out in the world, they can only be wonderful to you.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

You who are reading me please help me to be born.

No matter what his or her age, when a child has a serious and productive interest in something, do anything possible to feed it. Be the perfect enabler.

Grouping students by the same age is just a bad idea. The education-industrial complex is structured around organizing children by age. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Cea mai primitiv? cultur? este întotdeauna o cultur? adult? ÅŸi, prin însuÅŸi acest lucru, incompatibil? cu manifest?rile infantile care pot fi observate în cea mai înalt? civilizaÅ£ie.

while I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.

Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue all those which still remain to be accomplished.

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.

I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.

Is it better to have bronze than copper and tin separately? Is this the marker of some historic advance?

Did you win? he asks. It wasn't a match, I say. It was a lesson.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.

Indeed, while experiences and information can be good teachers, there are many times in life where we simply cannot afford to learn on the job. You don't want to have to go through multiple marriages to learn how to be a good spouse. Or wait until your last child has grown to master parenthood. This is why theory can be so valuable: it can explain

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

There were three terrible ages of childhood -- zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN STAY AS HE IS, THEN TREAT HIM AS HE IS. IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN CHANGE, THEN TREAT HIM AS THE PERSON YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO BECOME.