“Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or afford the extra tutoring that wealthier students enjoy. To address these unjust disparities, we need an early education revolution.” NeedsEndsHelpingKidsParentEnjoyStudentsRevolutionExtrasAddressesUnjustHomeworkDisparityEarly EducationBest Parents Author:Sal Albanese
“I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.” KnowsMeanKidsTodayGrowsWorryGrowing UpModernRevolutionDirtyModern LifeSexual Revolution Author:Lily Tomlin
“One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable.” PeopleIfsMenNeedsHas BeensKidsCoursesFoundOne ThingDogRevolutionSurvivalCatNuclearVulnerableSchemesTribesGangIndustrial RevolutionClansCat And DogExtended FamilyNuclear FamiliesLooking For Work Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“Everyone can have health care. Everyone can earn a living wage. We can educate all our kids - well. But none of that happens unless there's a political revolution. And it's not going to happen unless we deal with corporate control of the media.” WellsHappensCareKidsPoliticalDealsMediaRevolutionHealth CareCorporateEducateLiving WagePolitical Revolution Author:Bernie Sanders
“Families are struggling to put bread on the table, send their kids to college and take care of their basic needs. America needs a political revolution.” NeedsCareKidsAmericaPoliticalStruggleCollegeRevolutionTablesTake CareBreadBasic NeedsPolitical Revolution Author:Bernie Sanders
“When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.” PeopleKidsAgeSituationBreakClearRocksRevolutionNeededLoudRock And RollRepressionBreak ThroughUnfeeling Author:John Lennon
“You know, what I didn't know was how many people in the tech world the original movie had such an impression on. That's really interesting to me because a lot of the people who created this technological revolution that we're all living through were kids when Tron came out, and they saw Tron and it impacted them.” PeopleKnowsWorldKidsInterestingSawsRevolutionOriginalsImpressionTechnologicalReally Interesting Author:James Frain
“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.” PeopleTryingYearsKidsLastsEnergyNumbersGoneDyingFiguresRevolutionSmartThirdsAverageIntensitySmart PeopleIndustrial RevolutionLife SpanAverage Life Author:Bill Gates
“The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.” LittlesHomeKidsSchoolFatherRevolutionSceneIndustrial Revolution Author:Howard Rheingold
“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.” MenYearsMadeTwoDonePlayHomeCareKidsPurposeRolesHe ManRevolutionEvolutionNeededHundredYears AgoBusyProductionsConnectedUnitsFarmingIndustrial Revolution Author:Peter Buffett
“This revolution began with young people in Syria demonstrating because they wanted a future. They wanted opportunity, education, and so forth. They went out and they did it. Thugs came out and beat them up. The parents got angry that the thugs beat the kids up, and they went out and demonstrated, and they were met with bullets. They were killed. That's how this began.” PeopleKidsWantedYoungOpportunityParentRevolutionMetsBeatsAngrySyriaBulletsThugDemonstrating Author:John F. Kerry
“If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturing people's imaginations. Go back to 1900: That industry was chemistry. People had chemistry sets. In the 1930s, it was the rise of physics and physicists. They build on each other. Chemists laid the experimental understanding for the physicists to build their theories. It was three physicists who invented the transistor in 1947. That started the information revolution. Today, kids get computers.” PeopleIfsYearsLooksKidsTodayLastsThreeUnderstandingImaginationTechnologyInformationTheoryRevolutionIndustryDisciplineComputerPhysicsChemistryPhysicistSpinning1930sChemistTransistors Author:Paul Saffo
“The history of lead is a history of neglect. It's a history of decisions on our part not to address the broad implications of what we did to ourselves during the industrial revolution and in the first part of the century when our cities expanded broadly, when we built our housing and we began to depend upon lead as a mainstay of our new industrial culture. We put this stuff in even though we knew it was dangerous, we knew it was going to hurt kids.” KidsCultureHurtDecisionDangerousRevolutionNeglectIndustrial Revolution Author:David Rosner
“Ever since Marx, leftists have known that the simplest way to controlling a country is via education, the news industry, and health care. If you, as a leader or as a member of a leadership organization can succeed in taking over those three things where only kids, young people, only learn what you want them to learn, they learn how horrible freedom is, how unfair capitalism is, how mean-spirited, all of this, how wonderful equality and egalitarian is. Whenever there is a communist invasion or revolution, the news outlets are the first things seized and then the schools and then health care.” PeopleCountryCareKidsSchoolLeaderWonderfulRevolutionSucceedCapitalismHorribleHealth CareCommunistUnfair Author:Rush Limbaugh