Quotes About Responsibility

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.

Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

He who wishes to serve his country must have not only the power to think, but the will to act

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.

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

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent education, and that is not happening.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

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

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.