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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

Source: The Sane Society

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“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

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.”

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Author:John Wooden

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

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Book:The Sense of Wonder

Source: The Sense of Wonder

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

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Book:Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

Source: Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

Source: The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem

“He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.”

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Author:Chanakya

“IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.”

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Book:Mom & Me & Mom

Source: Mom & Me & Mom

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology

“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.”

Source: KISS Life "Life is what you make it"