Best education & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

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Author:Thomas Friedman

“See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.”

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Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the cause of Education. It has intrinsic and indestructible merits. It holds the welfare of mankind in its embrace, as the protecting arms of a mother hold her infant to her bosom. The very ignorance and selfishness which obstructs its path are the strongest arguments for its promotion, for it furnishes the only adequate means for their removal.”

Source: Thoughts

“Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth.”

Source: Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens

“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“I question whether we can afford to teach mother macramé when Johnny still can't read.”

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Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.”

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Author:George H. W. Bush

“Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.”

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Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays

“... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimulation of the intellect should be very much reduced.”

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Book:A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

Source: A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School

“Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial.”

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Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”

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Author:Hosea Ballou

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.”

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Author:Twyla Tharp

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.”

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Author:George Washington

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

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Book:Freedom and the Liberal Arts

Source: Freedom and the Liberal Arts

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