“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.” IfsMenYearsChildrenWholeSchoolYoungOpportunityMemoriesDecisionFourCollegeOur ChildrenLifetimeListsUnhappyMiserableYoung ManFour YearsYoung Women Author:Craig Biggio
“Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.” ChildrenMadeGovernmentSocialLandCollegeOur ChildrenPossessionForestsStreamsFarmsStigmaSignaturesYoungstersDividendsRosters Book:Round River Source: Round River
“The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.” ChildrenStillsBookLife IsFatherWonderMoralFourTeamSubjectsCollegeMarriedOur ChildrenBoundsTrackContemporaryTennisBoxingOne TimeHomosexualityExaminationEvaluateSelectedReviewersConnotationDistastefulHappily MarriedAdornmentContemporary LifeTennis Team Author:Sydney J. Harris
“When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.” IfsThinkingChildrenEnoughPositive ThinkingCollegeSkillsOur ChildrenIntelligenceCriticalAcquireCritical Thinking Author:Barbara Ehrenreich
“If we expect our children to thrive at our colleges and universities, and succeed in our economy once they graduate - first we must make quality, affordable early childhood education accessible to all.” IfsFirstsChildrenQualityEconomyChildhoodCollegeSucceedOur ChildrenUniversityThriveGraduatesAffordableEarly ChildhoodColleges And UniversitiesEarly Childhood Education Author:Kirsten Gillibrand
“The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.” IfsWantYearsChildrenJobsExampleCollegeBasesOur ChildrenPermanentYour ChildrenMinimumMinimum Wage Author:John Raese
“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.” NeedsChildrenEducationClassTechnologyDemocracyCollegeMembersDegreesLaborIndiaOur ChildrenAncientAvailableDistinctionContemptGraduatesElitesManualsCastesCollege EducationCondemningElitismSnobberyCollege DegreeCollege GraduatesManual LaborAncient IndiaClass DistinctionHigh Technology Book:Lump It Or Leave It Source: Lump It Or Leave It
“By preventing a free market in education, a handful of social engineers - backed by the industries that profit from compulsory schooling: teacher colleges, textbook publishers, materials suppliers, et al. - have ensured that most of our children will not have an education, even though they may be thoroughly schooled.” MayChildrenSocialTeacherCollegeMaterialsIndustryOur ChildrenProfitAlsEngineersPublishersFree MarketHandfulSchoolingPreventingTextbooksSchooledCompulsorySuppliersCompulsory Education Author:John Taylor
“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.” IfsChildrenDoeCollegeReturnOur ChildrenAddUniversityPopulationFormerLatterFanaticsHarvardLegislatureVirginiaKentuckyCambridgeTransylvania Author:Thomas Jefferson
“My mom was very spiritual. We were a Catholic family. We read the Bible at a young age. I have two brothers and a sister. We're all very close. That was part of our childhood. But when I went to college and then got drafted and played in Anaheim, it was a life changer for me. I was exposed to so many things. I was out on my own for the first time.” FirstsTwoAgeSpiritualYoungMy OwnChildhoodCollegeBrotherMomFirst TimeOur ChildrenCatholicMy MomLife ChangingExposedYoung AgeTwo BrothersCatholic Family Author:Matt Cullen
“We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsChildrenCountryBigsJobsFacesFightingIssuesFocusCollegeRepublicanCreatingOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountryRisingDividedDestroyingGraduatesWagesIsisHomelandRebuildingCreating Jobs Author:John Kasich
“I worry about putting food on the table, paying for my kids needs, their college fees in years to come. It's about earning enough to have a living to be able to look after your children.” NeedsYearsLooksChildrenEnoughKidsAbleWorryCollegeOur ChildrenTablesYour ChildrenEarningFees Author:Shane Filan
“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.” PeopleChildrenLittlesImportantChoicesAbilityPayTelevisionCollegeOur ChildrenSignificantLuxuryYour ChildrenSignificant Things Author:Patricia Arquette
“Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.” ThinkingMayChildrenCertainCollegeOur ChildrenAim Author:Michael Sandel
“My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.” ChildrenSchoolMotherNightParentTeacherFourCollegeDegreesHigh SchoolOur ChildrenProvidence Author:Tad Devine
“I want to clarify that one doesn't need to be a scientist or have fancy college degrees to know the truth about the health of our children, our communities, and the planet. Community members generally know far more about the health of their own communities than visiting "experts," yet that knowledge is often discredited because of another story that we tell ourselves: "real" education happens [only] in the halls of universities.” KnowsWantNeedsChildrenRealStoriesHappensCommunityCollegePlanetsMembersDegreesScientistOur ChildrenUniversityExpertsFancyHallsVisitingOur CommunityCollege DegreeReal Education Author:Annie Leonard