#progressive

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that. ↗

— Alf Landon

#awake #civilization #complex #got #growing

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda. ↗

— Chen Shui-bian

#by the people #change #clearly #decided #democratic

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

The child, unhampered, does not waste time. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #school #education

It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

A school’s job [is] to begin education. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#progressive-education #progressive-educationren #education

A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

We (the left) have to be used to being a minority – a small minority- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror -image delusions. It is important to stick to principles, even when some of them may be unpopular now for one reason or another. For example, there has been a tendency for some progressives to look at the power of the right, and say, “Well, all we can focus on is economic justice issues, because other things, whether they are abortion rights or drug law reform, will be less popular and more divisive”. And I think that is wrong approach. There are certain core things we stand for, and these include both economic justice and civil liberties, which you can’t back away from. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#imagination