Quotes About Development

What if we sought to develop a culture of thinking in our schools, classrooms, museums, meetings, and organizations?

Not our expectations of students, but our expectations for students.

One world leader warned another "the error of relying on the capability you have rather than developing the capability you need.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

If a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school." ? Rona Edwards, I Liked It, Didn't Love It: Screenplay Development from the Inside Out

It a Writer births the baby, then a Producer raises the child and sends it off to school.

Critical thinking is not merely a negative activity. Its ultimate purpose is to cut through the crap and develop sound opinions that impel intelligent, effective action.

the burgeoning of research that had occurred since, internationally, and taking ever more sophisticated forms, had passed them by completely.

As a living entity, the progressives reasoned, government had to evolve and adapt in response to changing circumstances.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character," John Morley,

For all these reasons, one cannot recount the history of modern science without acknowledging the crucial importance of Christianity. But this does not mean that Christianity and Christianity alone produced modern science,

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.

Intellectual and moral progress is not a matter of getting closer to an antecedent goal but of surpassing the past.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Capitalist development modifies essentially the nature of the State, widening its sphere of action, constantly imposing on it new functions (especially those affecting economic life), making more and more necessary its intervention and control in society.

The sorry existence to which this mental tendency was condemned in recent decades by the powerful development of social democracy in Germany may, to a certain extent, be explained by the exclusive domination and long duration of the parliamentary period. A

Lagenliga reformer och revolution är alltså inte olika metoder för historiskt framåtskridande, vilka man kan välja efter behag vid historiens disk, som man gör med varm eller kall korv, utan de utgör olika moment i klassamhällets utveckling.

The practice of giving the A allows the teacher to line up with her students in their efforts to produce the outcome, rather than lining up with the standards against these students. In the first instance, the instructor and the student, or the manager and the employee, become a team for accomplishing the extraordinary; in the second, the disparity in power between them can become a distraction and an inhibitor, drawing energy away from productivity and development.

Michelangelo is often quoted as having said that inside every block of stone or marble dwells a beautiful statue; one need only remove the excess material to reveal the work of art within. If we were to apply this visionary concept to education, it would be pointless to compare one child to another. Instead, all the energy would be focused on chipping away at the stone, getting rid of whatever is in the way of each child's developing skills, mastery, and self-expression.

A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages are like being told to scale a cliff using a rope attached to nothing.

JANIE GETS STRANGER EVERY YEAR.

for it was a new thing to see Meg blushing and talking about admiration, lovers, and things of that sort, and Jo felt as if during that fortnight her sister had grown up amazingly, and was drifting away from her into a world where she could not follow.

I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.