If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.  William Bennett quotes Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons (Deuteronomy 4:9) The Bible quotes Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside. Gioacchino Rossini quotes It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should have made. Now our republic has shown itself capable of dealing with one of the greatest wars ever made, and our people have proven themselves to be the most formidable in war of any nationality. But this war was a fearful lesson and should teach us the necessity of avoiding wars in the future. Ulysses S. Grant quotes I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. Alexander The Great quotes There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. Anna Sewell quotes A loving, caring teacher took a liking to me. She noticed the potential and wanted to help shape it. Tom Bradley quotes A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. John Lubbock, Sr. quotes Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock, Sr. quotes My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing. Mary Harris Jones quotes | 
