Quotes About Progress

Terminar una cosa sería no quedarse con temor de ella. Porque nada se termina ni se concluye, todo se enlaza revueltamente. Todo se va, pero sin haber terminado, y la cola de lo no terminado remueve lo siguiente.

Porque es un poco así, el tiempo transcurre a hurtadillas, disimulando, no le vemos andar.

Every 'no' means you're one step closer to 'yes.

I'm a learning machine and this is the place to learn.

Leaders are fascinated by the future. You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress, and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo." He

Apple makes computers but its employees believe in the company's bigger vision, which is to make tools to improve people's lives

A mission statement describes what you make; a vision is how you will make the world a better place.

Innovation is a new way of doing things that results in positive change. It makes life better.

IDEAS ARE THE CURRENCY OF the twenty-first century. Some

Jobs and Wozniak shared a common vision - to build a computer everyone could afford and use.

The trigger for white rage, inevitably, is black advancement. It is not the mere presence of black people that is the problem; rather, it is blackness with ambition, with drive, with purpose, with aspirations, and with demands for full and equal citizenship.

Sadly, the ascent of a black man to the presidency of the United States did not, despite all the talk of hope and a post-racial society, signal progress. Instead, it has led to a situation, not so unlike the era of Jim Crow, where a sense of physical vulnerability is shared across classes in the black community.86

Since the days of enslavement, African Americans have fought to gain access to quality education. Education can be transformative. It reshapes the health outcomes of a people; it breaks the cycle of poverty; it improves housing conditions; it raises the standard of living. Perhaps, most meaningfully, educational attainment significantly increases voter participation.135 In short, education strengthens a democracy. As

The brutally relentless tactics of stall and defy, then stall and undermine—tactics that went on for at least four decades—left the United States with millions of citizens who lacked the education needed to be competitive in a global, technology-driven economy.

The whittling down of racism to sheet-wearing goons allowed a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites who, although "resentful of black progress" and determined to ensure that racial inequality remained untouched, could see and project themselves as the "kind of upstanding white citizen[s]" who were "positively outraged at the tactics of the Ku Klux Klan.

The truth is that when World War I provided the opportunity in the North for blacks to get jobs with unheard-of pay scales and, better yet, the chance for their children to finally have good schools, African Americans fled the oppressive conditions in the South.

But as sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom observed, "Whiteness defends itself. Against change, against progress, against hope, against black dignity, against black lives, against reason, against truth, against facts, against native claims, and against its own laws and customs.

The states of the Deep South, which fought Brown tooth and nail, today all fall in the bottom quartile of state rankings for educational attainment, per capita income, and quality of health.139

Indeed, by 1963, not one black child attended a public school with a white child in South Carolina, Alabama, or Mississippi.

Since the days of enslavement, African Americans have fought to gain access to quality education. Education can be transformative. It reshapes the health outcomes of a people; it breaks the cycle of poverty; it improves housing conditions; it raises the standard of living. Perhaps, most meaningfully, educational attainment significantly increases voter participation.135 In short, education strengthens a democracy.

Acknowledging that students learn on different timetables, and that they differ widely in their ability to think abstractly or understand complex ideas, is no different than acknowledging that students at any given age aren't all the same height. It is not a statement of worth but of reality.

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It is very difficult to teach navigation theory to someone who clings to the shore.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.