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“There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.”

World Development Discipline Tests Intelligent Severe

Book:Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

Source: Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition

“I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.”

Men Believe Kind I Believe Nations Understanding Greatness Development Periods Tests Noble Absence Invention Limitation Grotesque Smallness Incapability

Book:The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Fall

“All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every bit as good as that of children whose mothers do not work.”

Knows Children School Mother Social Bits Emotional Development Achievement Tests Score Social Development Mother Child Test Scores

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.”

Men Children Science Individual Race Cases Conditions Stage Development Tests Species Comparison Savages Affinity Naturalist Epitome

Book:Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages

Source: Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages

“If joy and peace and rewards were instantaneously given the doer of good, there would be no evil-all would do good but not because of the rightness of doing good. There would be no test of strength, no development of character, no growth of powers, no free agency, only satanic controls.”

Ifs Character Would Be Joy Evil Given Growth Development Tests Rewards Agency Doing Good Doers Satanic Free Agency

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war provided a test site for experimentation, and paved the way for emergence of what I call in Strategie de la deception 'the second deterrence'.”

Way War Military Revolution Development Tests Affair Deception Site Experimentation Emergence Pentagon Kosovo Deterrence

Author:Paul Virilio

“I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.”

Real Self Community Self Esteem Development Ideals Dignity Tests Organization Self Confidence Esteem Staying Leadership Development Staying Power

Author:Paul Wellstone

“If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed.”

Ifs Firsts Soul Light Next Effort Development Prove Creatures First Time Red Argument Tests Ill Rational Drivers Next Time Stopping Humiliating Reflexes Conditional Red Lights

Book:Pnin

Source: Pnin