Quotes About Development

I go to bed every night and try to be the best version of me, and I wake up everyday in the morning and try to be better than yesterday.

One important thing you can do for yourself is to discover your talent early enough and develop it.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself

When the mind knows its own value, it strives to establish itself in the right environment that supports its growth and development.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Educators don't necessarily have to teach. Instead, they can provide an environment and resources that tease out your natural ability to learn on your own.

I love my failures because they taught me more than my teachers ever could...

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach.

We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell "jump shot" rather than how to shoot it.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it.

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

You can't fix education until you fix the community, education is not a building but a lifestyle and an environment.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Our forefathers did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th, without buttered bread until the 16th, without tea or soup until the 17th, without gas, matches or electricity until the 20th

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.