Quotes About Development

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

The goal is not to destroy technology in some neo-Luddite delusion but to push technology into a hypertrophic state, further than it is meant to go. (...) We must scale up, not unplug. Then, during the passage of technology into this injured, engorged, and unguarded condition, it will be sculpted anew into something better, something in closer agreement with the real wants and desires of its users.

Even though I am a mathematician, I look at [fetal development] with marvel: How do these instruction sets not make mistakes as they build what is us?

The secret of keeping a journal is seeing it as a draft, a stepping-stone, a process.

It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

The public were not to be consulted on whether they wished to have their cities and towns torn down and rebuilt in an entirely original and untested style with no connection to what had gone before.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living have been adopted because they are easy and pleasant. Indeed, they differ profoundly from those of our ancestors and of the human groups which have so far resisted industrial civilization. We do not know, as yet, whither they are better or worse.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.

Obviously, things work best when parents and teachers are helping kids to become good people—and, better yet, when they're actively supporting one another's efforts.

But, as with punishments, they can never help someone to develop a commitment to a task or an action, a reason to keep doing it when there's no longer a payoff.

Where did this disposition come from? And what are our long-term goals for people—particularly children—with respect to motivation?

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

The more an idea is developed, the more concise becomes its expression: the more a tree is pruned, the better is the fruit.

Self-discovery is a slower process but a more natural one.

Sabeis como é, s'o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu'o filho seja árvore. S'o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

2 years ago I couldn't even spell Graduate and not I are one!

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.