Developmental Quotes

48 quotes by 43 authors

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. — 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… — 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… — Kenny Smith
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… — 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… — Idries Shah
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… — 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… — 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… — 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.… — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data,… — Tan Le
I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now… — Geraldo Rivera
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them. — Alison Gopnik
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments. — Alison Gopnik
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was… — Alison Gopnik
A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and… — Jeffrey Kluger
I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I… — Emeril Lagasse
Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program. — Richard Dawkins
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process. — B.F. Skinner
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… — Seymour Papert
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… — Seymour Papert

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