Quotes About Development

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become then what you are.

Grown-ups are always more fascinated by what you might become than by what you are.

Grownups are always more fascinated by what you might become than what you are.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.

He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.

There should be no rush to have a child reading before age six or seven. That's developmentally the natural time.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Tudo o que já foi, é o começo do que vai vir, toda a hora a gente está num cômpito.

Time is the school in which we learn.  

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs.

That Episcopal day school Marin attended from the age of four until she entered Berkeley had as its aim the development of a realistic but optimistic attitude, and it was characteristic of Charlotte that whenever the phrase realistic but optimistic appeared in a school communique she read it as realistic and optimistic.

But time brings odd mutations, and there we were.

People who respect themselves...are willing to invest something of themselves; they may not play at all, but when they do play, they know the odds. That kind of self-respect is a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

People change, but only if you give them room to do it.

A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

Do not despise little beginnings. It'll all make sense as you're staring at an opportunity that you realize the difficult moments merely prepared you for.