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“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

“Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization...I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.”

“Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.”

Accepting Virtue Doubt Acceptance Faults Developmental

Book:Notes to Myself

Source: Notes to Myself

“We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer to the truth... The developmental process described in this essay has been a process of evolution from primitive beginnings-a process whose successive stages are characterized by an increasingly detailed and refined understanding of nature. But nothing that has been or will be said makes it a process of evolution toward anything.”

May Has Beens Said Science Process Understanding Nature Stage Evolution Scientist Notion Primitive Essays Paradigm Refined Explicit Implicit Developmental

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only a tiny fraction of the distance between a Type 0 and a Type III civilisation - a factor of 100 billion billion, in fact. Yet we have such a highly regarded view of ourselves, we believe a Type III civilisation would find us irresistible and would rush to make contact with us. The truth is, however, they may be as interested in communicating with humans as we are keen to communicate with ants.”

“The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that crystals are formed by the same laws in spite of the diversity of their forms.”

Form Law Science Individual Results Principles Development Diversity Findings Spite Investigation Principal Uniforms Organisms Units Crystals Developmental

Author:Theodor Schwann

“The development of an organism ... may be considered as the execution of a 'developmental program' present in the fertilized egg. ... A central task of developmental biology is to discover the underlying algorithm from the course of development.”

May Science Courses Development Program Tasks Eggs Biology Execution Organisms Algorithms Developmental

Book:Automata, languages, development

Source: Automata, languages, development

“Integrity is not a character trait that one possesses more or less of but a sophisticated state of processing experience in the world one enters into in varying degrees. Integrating is a major developmental task at every stage of life.”

World States Character Stage Integrity Degrees Majors Ethics Tasks Traits Sophisticated Integrating Processing Stages Of Life Developmental Character Trait

Author:David A. Kolb

“The Lourie Center...is a national pioneer in developing and applying early intervention techniques to diagnose and treat emotional and developmental problems in young children.”

Children Problem Young Emotional Treats Technique Developing Memorable Intervention Pioneers Young Children Developmental

Author:Connie Morella

“So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.”

Men Esteem Developmental

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.”

Ifs Long Process Levels Environment Serious Lows Consequence Driven Exposure Long Life Infancy Hormones Developmental Low Level Pesticides Serious Life

Author:Charles Benbrook

“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.”

“In the course of the history of the earth innumerable events have occurred one after another, causing changes of states, all with certain lasting consequences. This is the basis of our developmental law, which, in a nutshell, claims that the diversity of phenomena is a necessary consequence of the accumulation of the results of all individual occurrences happening one after another... The current state of the earth, thus, constitutes the as yet most diverse final result, which of course represents not a real but only a momentary end-point.”

“The great Mediator asks for our repentance not because we must ‘repay’ him in exchange for his paying our debt to justice, but because repentance initiates a developmental process that, with the Savior’s help, leads us along the path to a saintly character”

Character Helping Asks Process Justice Path Debt Repentance Savior Initiate Developmental Mediators

Author:Bruce C. Hafen

“The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a high degree of predictive validity.”

Ifs Chance Society Becoming Degrees Behavior Percent Violent Probability Infant Chances Are Validity Variables Affectionate Likelihood Developmental

Author:James W. Prescott

“Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.”

“The most excellent Jihad is that for the conquest of self.”

Self Excellent Conquest Self Development Jihad Developmental Holy Prophet

Author:Muhammad

“Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.”

Wells One Thing Speech Developmental

Book:The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues

“We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding all facets of our children’s development. If we can understand the underlying developmental process, we can see a child’s struggles as signs of striving toward growth instead of chronic problems or attempts to aggravate adults.”

“Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.”

Definitions Great Leader Great Leadership Developmental

Author:Bill Hybels

“The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.”

Humans Mean Stories Dream Community Levels Reflection Historical Species Missions Critical Our Time Developmental Critical Reflection

Book:The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future

“Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.”

Should Sports Community Company Support Program Our Community Developmental

Author:Mary Lou Retton

“On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.”

Hands Form Individual Process Psychology Complexes Assistance Developmental

Book:Principles of Physiological Psychology

Source: Principles of Physiological Psychology

“Differentiating from parental introjects and psychological defences based on the emotional pain of childhood is essential not only for neurotic or seriously disturbed individuals; it is a central developmental issue in every person’s life.”

Persons Pain Individual Issues Childhood Emotional Essentials Psychological Defence Neurotic Disturbed Emotional Pain Parental Developmental

Book:The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

Source: The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

“Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.”

“... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.”

Way Love May Seems Age Three Given Conflict Crisis Affirmation Developmental

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.”

Psychology Absolutes Epistemology Developmental

Author:Jean Piaget

“The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers”

Problem Levels Development Capable Adults Independent Distance Determined Guidance Collaboration Problem Solving Peers Developmental

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“Human life is an extension of the principles of nature, and human civilization is a venture extrapolated out of human natures: man and his natural potential are the root of the entire human domain. The great task of all philosophizing is to become competent to interpret and steer the potential developmental forces in human natures and in the human condition, both of which are prodigiously fatalistic.”

“Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.”

Needs May Children Behavior Bases Treatment Broads Disorder Developmental

Author:Aditi Shankardass

“Phylogeny and ontogeny are, therefore, the two coordinated branches of morphology. Phylogeny is the developmental history [Entwickelungsgeschichte] of the abstract, genealogical individual; ontogeny, on the other hand, is the developmental history of the concrete, morphological individual.”

Two Hands Science Individual Abstract Branches Concrete Developmental Nomenclature Morphology

Author:Ernst Haeckel

“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.”

People Thinking Together Goal Stage Lessons Gains Educational Sufi Succession Freeze Learners Developmental Ripening

Book:A Perfumed Scorpion

Source: A Perfumed Scorpion

“In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above himself. Play contains in a concentrated form, as in the focus of a magnifying glass, all developmental tendencies; it is as if the child tries to jump above his usual level.”

Ifs Trying Children Play Age Form Levels Focus Everyday Glasses Tendencies Usual Behaviour Magnifying Developmental Magnifying Glass

Author:Lev S. Vygotsky

“It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.”

Way Lying Answers Streets Cancer One Way Biology Evolutionary Biology Developmental Convergence Confluence

Author:Paul Davies

“My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of "public domain" and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.”

Heart Made Important Self Steps Taken Childhood My Heart Domain Sense Of Self Developmental Public Domain

Author:Genie Francis

“In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.”

Two Science Three Individual Process Levels Development Organization Majority Patterns Repeats Eggs Length Genes Units Embryos Spatial Mutants Developmental

Author:Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

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