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.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

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

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

America is the greatest country in the world.

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.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Let’s teach kids, at the kindergarten level, what the contributions of people of color were to building the United States of America.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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.

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

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

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn’t so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

I teach children to be winners.

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

Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot of yourself.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

I didn’t start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born – I started getting wicked BO. You know there’s a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

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

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I don’t think anyone ever plans to change line-ups, but it’s something that comes with being in bands. I was in a band once and there were always problems – members come and go – and some of the world’s biggest bands have changed line-ups loads!

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.