“It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.” ThinkingChildrenImportantNextDifficultTechnologyFailingEffectsIndustryOur ChildrenMedicalCuresProvidingOblivionBest Education Author:Sam Harris
“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.” PeopleNeedsChildrenEnergySocialJusticeLevelsEconomicIndustryTomorrowOur ChildrenSocial JusticeOutcomesFuelEnterpriseStabilityFossilsFossil FuelEconomic Justice Author:Sharan Burrow
“Leadership is the great challenge of the 21st century in science, politics, education, and industry. But the greatest challenge in leadership is parenting. We need to do more than just get our enterprises ready for the challenges of the twenty-first century. We also need to get our children ready for the challenges of the 21st century.” NeedsFirstsChildrenChallengesCenturyReadyIndustryTwentiesOur ChildrenEnterprise21st Century Author:Jim Rohn
“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.” PeopleChildrenSchoolSportsRealizingCompanyTeamIndustryAspectOur ChildrenIncludingLogosSports TeamFood Industry Author:Anna Lappe
“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 you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.” PeopleIfsChildrenReasonHelpingGovernmentJobsParentPowerfulIndustryInternetInvolvedAuthorityOur ChildrenYour ChildrenFree SpeechEducator Author:Jim Carroll
“I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldYearsWellsChildrenRealDoneStreetsBabyIndustrySixJokesOur ChildrenYour ChildrenEntertainingCircusGypsySix Year Olds Author:Natasha Lyonne
“Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.” ChildrenUseAbleCertainTeachIndustrySkillsOur ChildrenErasEducation System Author:Naveen Jain
“We live in a society that refuses to set a standard for what we will allow American entertainment to expose to our children. I think we need to set a standard that is entertainment industry wide, not just limited to hip-hop.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenIndustryStandardsOur ChildrenHip HopEntertainmentRefuseWideHipsHopsEntertainment Industry Author:Bakari Kitwana
“The rage building up, generation after generation, among what has become a permanent underclass in many parts of the world cannot continue. We are desperately undereducating our children. In the United States, we are turning prison-building into the single largest urban industry. These are like toxic chemical factors any one of which could cause a raging fire. God help us if they begin to interact.” IfsWorldChildrenStatesHelpingCausesUnitedUnited StatesFireGenerationsBuildingIndustryOur ChildrenPrisonRageFactorsPermanentChemicalsToxicUrbanGod HelpBuilding UpGod Help UsToxic Chemicals Author:Marianne Williamson
“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.” IfsShouldMindChildrenCareSufferingCompassionVirtueMinesIndustryActivityAmbitionCapacityOur ChildrenInjusticeFacultyContemptCreepsInfancyHabitualMeannessInhumanityAccelerateAbhorrence Book:The Letters of John and Abigail Adams Source: The Letters of John and Abigail Adams
“In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.” MayChildrenLife IsEvilPovertyTeachChildhoodIndustryHabitSafeOur ChildrenFoundationLaysTrainRichesYour ChildrenIdlenessEarly ChildhoodFuture Life Author:Lydia Sigourney
“It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.” PeopleNeedsChildrenPlayMovingPoliticalFightingWinningWorkEffortEnvironmentRightsRiskMovementBuildingHealthIndustryOur ChildrenSafetyPlanningMoving ForwardCorporateDamageMassiveStakesDominationNetworkingUnbornUnborn ChildWork And Play Author:Lois Gibbs