People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. Mary Worley Montagu quotes I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate. Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess quotes She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. Oliver Goldsmith quotes As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. Ursula K. LeGuin quotes Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott, Sr. quotes Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. Socrates quotes The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Theodore Hesburgh quotes For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously. William Bennett quotes Keep up prayer from the declining of the sun till the darkness of the night and the morning recitation; surely the morning recitation is witnessed. (The Children of Israel 17.78) Koran quotes Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. William Bennett quotes |