“What determines how much time and deliberate practice a child is willing to devote to achievement? Nothing less than her character.” ChildrenCharacterPracticeWillingAchievementDetermineDeliberateDeliberate Practice Book:Flourish Source: Flourish
“You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.” GivingChildrenGrowsEnjoyGrowing UpEnvironmentSafeAchievementImportanceCompareEnjoy LifeAthleticSafe Environment Author:Steffi Graf
“Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect women and children. None of their pain or achievement is registered in feminist rhetoric, which portrays men as oppressive and callous exploiters.” MenChildrenPainHouseProtectAchievementFeministRhetoricCrippledCallousProtect Women Author:Camille Paglia
“Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.” MenNeedsChildrenWomenRolesShareWillingTasteHusbandAchievementModelsRole ModelsSurrogatesPersonal Success Author:Elizabeth Dole
“The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.” WantNeedsChildrenFactsFacesPassionIndividualGivenChallengesEnvironmentTalentStudentsKeysAchievementTransformationTransformedDiscoveringChallenges We FaceTrue PassionIndividual Talent Book:The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
“Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.” WayBelieveHumansChildrenFormI BelieveImaginationOne ThingSourceAchievementOur ChildrenEducate Author:Ken Robinson
“My dad was an incredibly brave man, completely dedicated to his family, with a love for all. If I could be half the dad he was, to my children, then that will be an achievement in itself. He died 14 months exactly to the start of the 2012 Olympics. I hope he will be watching and waving his big union jack in London from somewhere else. I love you so much dad.” IfsMenChildrenBigsHalfLove YouMonthsDadAchievementDiedBraveUnionsMy DadLondonMy ChildrenIf I CouldDedicatedOlympicsSomewhere ElseBrave ManLove You So MuchI Love You So Much Author:Tom Daley
“My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others.” WantShouldFirstsBelieveChildrenCareEffortAchieveAchievementOur ChildrenEducationalAcademicAdequateContentionAcademic Achievement Author:Nel Noddings
“The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.” ChildrenImportantSchoolStudentsAchievementResourcesFellowsEducationalBoardsAggravationSchool Board Author:James S. Coleman