“As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.” ~~ John Dewey
Filed Under: Character, Children, Choices, John Dewey, Learning, Life, Parenting
“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.” ~~ Henry B. Adams
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” ~~ Aristotle
“An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.” ~~ Rudyard Kipling
“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” ~~ Harry Truman
“And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that education is not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world.” ~~ Barack Obama
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ~~ Anne Frank
“If my father had not been the kind who encouraged his children to pursue intellectual interests without any thought of profit, our early curiosity about flying would have been nipped too early to bear fruit.” ~~ Orville Wright
