If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

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

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Children are all foreigners.

The best teacher is very interactive.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Standing in support of children is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of party affiliation.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

I never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

If something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

They know enough who know how to learn.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

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.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that – children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

I don’t take pictures when I’m with my kids, for the sake of my kids. It’s important when you’re as busy as I am that you give your kids your time when you’re with them, and nothing compromises that. I’ve been lucky enough to have fans that understand that.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

One of my mentors schooled me on branding before it was a cliche term in the game.

In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

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.

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

For me, education was power.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain’t ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.