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The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that…
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Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that…
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We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.
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Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do…
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There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you…
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The cognitive skills prized by the American educational establishment and measured by achievement tests are only part of what is required for…
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Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in…
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Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who…
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Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run.
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I went to a liberal arts college, and as part of my background, I was majoring in mathematics and physics.
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I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating,…
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Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.
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It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.
— Hyman Taubman
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By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere…
— Matthieu Ricard
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We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to…
— Marianne Williamson
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I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other…
— David Brooks
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that…
— Rumi
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At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial…
— Daniel Goleman
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This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a…
— Jonathan Swift
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Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond…
— Barbara Fredrickson
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large…
— William Blake
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing…
— Barnabe Barnes
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Our present urgency is to recover a sense of the primacy of the Universe as our fundamental context, and the primacy of…
— Thomas Berry
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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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