Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

While I believed deeply in my husband’s vision for this country… and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President… like any mother, I was worried about what it would mean for our girls if he got that chance. How would we keep them grounded under the glare of the national spotlight?

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they’ll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

My mother did not like children.

Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.

Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

Common Core is a big win for education.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I’d get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

I had my first baby at twenty-one.

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people’s children stars.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

My daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Our lifestyle was not in any way a negative. That was not the problem. That is and will remain one of the wonderful opportunities we are able to give our children.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.