Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

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

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

I can’t imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

My husband’s a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can’t raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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.

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

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

We can’t have, like, willy-nilly proliferation of fake news. That’s crazy. You can’t have more types of fake news than real news. That’s allowing public deception to go unchecked. That’s crazy.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

Religion is just mind control.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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

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

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.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

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.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

I do not raise brats!

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I’ve got kids and responsibilities, so I can’t be my own test pilot. That wouldn’t be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it’s a sensible thing to do.

Our teachers deserve better feedback.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

The side of fairytales I don’t like is that they always have happy endings, that there’s just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that’s what I try to teach my kids.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it’s so important to me. It’s hard to hear that people think I’m not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I’m nuts.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

We make the Sabbath a delight when we teach the gospel to our children.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

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.

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

I think a father is important for everyone. If you don’t have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it’s possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

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.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.