More than any other species, we [humans] survive by the accumulated experience of previous generations, and that experience needs to be passed on to children for their protection and well-being. [Richard Dawkins]
Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society.
[Joan Ganz Cooney]
The greatest natural resource that any country can have is its children.
[Danny Kaye]
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.
[C. Everett Koop, M.D.]
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
[Barack Obama]
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
[Lyndon B. Johnson]
Kids are the only future the human race has.
[William Saroyan]
Children are the living messages we will send to a time we will not see.
[John W. Whitehead]
Needed - role models:
What we need more than anything else is not extbooks but textpeople. It is the personality of the teacher which is the text that pupils read, the text that they will never forget.
[Abraham Joshua Heschel]
Every good father is a little bit of mother.
[Lee Salk]
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth."
[Dan Rather]
Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
[Nadia Bollanger]
We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
[Henry Ward Beecher]
Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth. [Theodor Reik]
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
[Jacques Barzun]
Every child has within a seed of divinity and it is the duty of a teacher to nurture it.
[Gary Amirault]
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.
[Frank Clark]
If you can't hold children in your arms, please hold them in your heart.
[Mother Clara Hale]
Honor your teachers, too. In our country they are often our first "parents" outside the home, one further step in the growth to adulthood.
[Bob Shepherd]
A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops.
[Henry Brooks Adams]
The mother's heart is the child's school-room.
[Henry Ward Beecher]
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
[Emma Goldman]
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
[Carl Sagan]
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
[George Santayana]
The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "Go to school and be a teacher." [The triumph of the Spirit, after tragedy, Mamie Mobley's inspiring story.]
I think the way people are educated nowadays tends to diminish their capacity for suffering. At present a school is reckoned good 'if the children have a good time.' And that used not to be the criterion. Parents moreover want their children to grow up like themselves (only more so), but nevertheless subject them to an education quite different from their own. -- Endurance of suffering isn't rated highly because there is supposed not to be any suffering -- really it's out of date.
[Ludwig Wittgenstein]
