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Quotes About Development

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
~ Plato
Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
~ Plato
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
~ Plato
Los países africanos se mueren de hambre, en efecto, pero no por obra del Banco Mundial, sino de bárbaros dictadorzuelos que comparten las tesis tercermundistas del señor [Pierre] Galand, precisamente porque ellas suministran una coartada, desviando la atención popular de su propia deshonestidad, rapacidad e incompetencia y echándoles la culpa a otros de los males provocados por ellos.
~ Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
~ Pliny (the Elder)
The wildest colts make the best horses.
~ Plutarch
To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.
~ Plutarch
is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width
~ Plutarch
The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games.
~ PO BRONSON
This variable, how a parent responds to a child's vocalizations—right in the moment—seems to be the most powerful mechanism pulling a child from babble to fluent speech.
~ PO BRONSON
When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.
~ PO BRONSON
Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.
~ PO BRONSON
child deprived of the opportunity to discuss mistakes can't learn from them.
~ PO BRONSON
Children are not passive absorbers of knowledge; rather, they are active constructors of concepts
~ PO BRONSON
According to an extensive study comparing identical twins to fraternal twins, headed by University of New Mexico's Dr. Philip Dale, only 25% of language acquisition is due to genetic factors.
~ PO BRONSON
Around the world, every week, 3 million people move from rural areas into cities. That's a San Francisco every two days! That isn't a future statistic. That's a today statistic.
~ PO BRONSON
The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins learning. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.
~ Polly Berrien Berends
Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
~ Pope John XXIII
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.
~ Pope Pius (XII)
I was very sexual from a very young age.
~ Portia de Rossi
Evolution is cut-and-try.
~ Poul Anderson
Our own age is not one which can afford to call its ancestors savage.
~ Poul Anderson
Process not coming right means , we are not doing some thing RIGHT.
~ Prageeth Suranjaya Perera
Kita semua harus menerima kenyataan, tapi menerima kenyataan saja adalah pekerjaan manusia yang tak mampu lagi berkembang. Karena manusia juga bisa membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru. Kalau tak ada orang mau membikin kenyataan-kenyataan baru, maka "kemajuan" sebagai kata dan makna sepatutnya dihapuskan dari kamus umat manusia.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer