Quotes about Development

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Know the law of human nature: acts produce habits, habits breed dispositions, dispositions form the will, and the rightly-formed will is character.

Step by step we shall get to see how truly this promise-precept

our main real estate effort should be directed at getting out in front of expansion and letting the population build out to us. Just like in the beginning, we start around these small towns, people drive past our stores, get to know us, and become customers.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.