Quotes About Development

Optimal sculpting of key neural networks through healthy early relationships allows us to think well of ourselves, trust others, regulate our emotions, maintain positive expectations, and utilize our intellectual and emotional intelligence in moment-to-moment

Those who are nurtured best survive best. It turns out that our emotional resilience and our ability to learn are inextricably interwoven.

our ability to learn is regulated by how we are treated by our teachers, at home and in the classroom.

Thus, the brain remains plastic into adulthood and can be changed for the better through positive interpersonal relationships.

they found considerable plasticity from the onset of puberty into the early twenties. Once this was discovered, it became obvious that the upheavals of adolescence and early adulthood coincide with a previously unrecognized sensitive period of brain maturation in the prefrontal cortex

Sensitive periods are triggered via the interaction of genetic timing and experience. Sensitive periods are times of rapid learning when thousands of synaptic connections are made each second (Greenough, 1987; ten Cate, 1989). The timing of sensitive periods varies

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It is the power of being with others that shapes our brains.

Conversely, we humans are born premature and highly dependent newborns whose brains are shaped through years of interactions with our caretakers and the environment.

Despite the fact that childbearing has been delayed into the 20s and 30s, the brain still expects this to happen at 12 or 13 years of age.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.

Actually, he said one morning, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in all the colors yourself.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man. And do not be like an oyster who rests on the sea bottom waiting for the good things to come by. Search for them, find them.

One cannot begin too young nor linger too long with learning.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.

I am one who lives to learn.

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.

civilization?

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.