Quotes About Children

Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.

Your children....are like diamonds...they may need polish.. and education of the right kind will impart this lustre.

Teaching children to read was one thing; keeping them interested in reading was something else.

No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education.

We have every resource necessary to provide access to education for every child on the planet; we just need to commit to enabling it.

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?

Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.

I've had no sexual education, but I have six children.

Parents do not own their children. They have no 'natural right' to control their education fully.

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Education is a task for both parents and state. The state, parents, and children all have interests that must be protected.

If children have interests, then education happens.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

It is my belief that if you have children and you serve overseas, that if you should die, your children should get a free education.

The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.