Quotes About Development

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

we rush madly forward toward we know not what and call ourselves "progressive". It

The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson Don't give up in the middle!

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

there is no question that there is an enormous range of technologies that are on the shelf. The problem is the gap between technological development, and diffusion and adoption. It is sobering to be reminded that the first hybrid was invented in 1901.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress.

unquestioning obedience to "absolute" rules—turns out to be the single least productive thing we can do for our children's moral development.

Where there is no critical thinking, there is no progress. If the children are our future, then critical thinking must be their guide.

Children's understanding of morality is the same whether they're of one religion, another religion or no religion. But if it's simply indoctrination, it's worse than doing nothing. It interferes with moral development." —Larry Nucci, director, Office for Studies in Moral Development, University of Illinois

Some of the best lessons are learned from past mistakes, the error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress.

Children still, on the verge of not being children any more.

Pain is a part of growing up. It's how we learn.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively larger groupings (new, interconnected circuits).

Industrialization finally drove the West out of a mercantile economy and into a capitalist one. Before industrialization, the most important factor in determining the wealth of a country was its volume of trade, or exports minus imports. After industrialization, the value of what a country could produce became more important.

But capitalism without some form of imperialism is actually quite a recent development. It was not even seriously considered until the end of the First World War, and not implemented on a global scale until after the Second World War. By then, European countries had lost their world domination to the USA and the Soviet Union. Imperialism was extracted from capitalism with the arrival in the late 19th century of the big corporations

The Netherlands is a small nation but its contribution to the development of capitalism is immense.

While a powerful, centralized monarchy created the first great European empires, it held back the development of a strong and independent merchant class, and that held back private enterprise. As a result, capitalism did not grow out of the empires of Spain and Portugal, but out of the disadvantaged newcomers to the race for international trade, and especially England and the Netherlands.