Quotes About Development

Asl?nda cahil, ama do?u?tan zeki olan, dü?üncelerini sistemli bir bütünlük içinde geli?tirmeye al??k?n ki?iler, kendilerinden daha üstün olanlar?n kaç?rd??? yükseklikleri ula?t?.

Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation

Mistakes are their own instructors

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant

From the egg.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Teaching isn't one-tenth as effective as training.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Students of extraordinariness lack strong models that can be crisply tested.

every individual will develop relations to other persons, to domains of accomplishment, and to his or her self.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.

Nearly all cultures have evolved specific ideas about education, although only in modern times does education prove to be virtually coterminous with formal schooling. Ultimately, the natural paths and forms of development place many children in a difficult bind, as students begin to address the quite different agenda of the schoolroom and the particular structure of the scholastic domains.

BEYOND SCHOOL: CHANGING ADULT MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION

By the time the child has reached the age of seven or so, his development has become completely intertwined with the values and goals of the culture. Nearly all learning will take place in one or another cultural context; aids to his thinking will reside in many other human beings as well as in a multitude of cultural artifacts. Far from being restricted to the individual's skull, cognition and intelligence become distributed across the landscape.

Jean Monnet: "I regard every defeat as an opportunity.

There is a limit to the development of the intellect but none of that of the heart

The two factors that will influence you the most in the years ahead are the books you read and the people you're around.

A good short history of the development of the drift hypothesis and the final emergence of plate tectonics is given in A. Hallam, A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)

I have a plot, but not much happens.