A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

A lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.

I’m dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

I’ve never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I’m a good person. I believe I’m a good mom. But that’s for my kids to decide, not for the world.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Creative people don’t behave very well generally. If you’re looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you’re gonna be depressed real fast. I don’t have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She’s my first priority.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

I was very worried about my mother, growing up – a lot. I do not want my children to be worried about me.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

If you can build a business up big enough, it’s respectable.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no ‚them‘ out there. It’s just an awful lot of ‚us.‘

Tell the children the truth.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I’m going be training that child out the womb.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

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.

Teaching’s hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?