Quotes About Development

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

I believe that books must go through a fairly slow birthing process...

Children always wanted their parents in situ, in stasis. The faster they changed, the more their parents should remain the same.

If what we change does not change us, we are playing with blocks.

Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground

Mistakes are expected, respected, and investigated

Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.

Notre grande erreur est d'essayer d'obtenir de chacun en particulier les vertus qu'il n'a pas, et de négliger de cultiver celles qu'il possède.

On this view, our identities acquire depth and vitality not from any innate kernel of being, but from a gradual layering of stories. This in turn implies that the most current story that we tell about ourselves is merely the most recent draft of our life.

When I was younger, I walked on my toes and made clicking sounds with my tongue. A therapist taught me how to stop.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica. To be intelligent, one must start young.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!

Needless help is an actual hindrance to the development of natural forces.

Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be.

Even so those who teach little children too often have the idea that they are educating babies and seek to place themselves on the child's level by approaching him with games, and often with foolish stories. Instead of all this, we must know how to call to the man which lies dormant within the soul of the child.

you do not exist, you cannot hope to grow. That is the tremendous step the child takes, the step that goes from nothing to something.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.