Education commences at the mother’s knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

None of my kids want to be actors. They are actually very interested in being musicians. I think they like the process of film from the outside. Mad is interested in editing. Pax loves music and deejaying.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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!‘

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

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.

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

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I’ve always put everybody else’s child first before my own health, before my own outfit, before my own time frame.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

The method of instruction in Scouting is that of creating in the boy the desire to learn for himself.

My mother insisted that her children read.

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

I’m not really book-smart.

I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.

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

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

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

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

It is very nearly impossible… to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

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

Governor Romney has a great business background. He is extremely well educated. He has several degrees from Harvard, including, you know, business and including a law degree.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn’t in her.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

They know enough who know how to learn.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.