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My own general thesis was somewhat to this effect: that Artists have worried the world by being wantonly, needlessly, and gratuitously progressive. Politicians have to be progressive; that is, they have to live in the future, because they know they have done nothing but evil in the past. But Artists, who have been right from the beginning of the world, who were, perhaps, the only people who were right even in the beginning of the world, decorating pottery or designing rude frescoes on the rock when other people were fighting or offering human sacrifice, they have no right to despise their own past.


G.K. Chesterton


#avowals-and-denials #politics #progress #design

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.


George Gordon Byron


#progress #age

Childhood’s work is learning, and it is in his play...that the child works at his job.


Caroline Pratt


#education #progressive-education #education

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play.


Caroline Pratt


#education #progressive-education #education

In his play he is no longer an onlooker merely; he is a part of the busy world of adults. He is practicing to take his place in that world when he is grown. He is getting is education.


Caroline Pratt


#education #progressive-education #business

This was not the last time I was to spoil my own fun by asking questions.


Caroline Pratt


#progressive-education #education

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.


Hồ Chí Minh


#growth #investment #progress #society #education

the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a sure guide. Social perfection was also sure, because human nature worked for Good, and three instruments were all she asked — Suffrage, Common Schools, and Press. On these points doubt was forbidden. Education was divine, and man needed only a correct knowledge of facts to reach perfection: "Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts.


Henry Adams


#progressivism #social-gospel #education

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.


Caroline Pratt


#education #progressive-education #school #education

...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#education






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