#progressive

Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#fact #facts #get #ideology #innovative

I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#humanity #i #idealistic #progressive #science

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. ↗

— Al Franken

#back #doing #focused #getting #home

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough. ↗

— Andrew Taylor Still

#aside #been #better #buy #constructed

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#class #class family #family #father #i

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#case #doing #man #means #most

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. ↗

— Henry George

#clothes #institutions #outgrow #progressive #societies

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