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[Quote No.12495] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I was supposed to be a welfare statistic... It was because of a teacher that I sit at this table. I remember her telling us one cold, miserable day that she could not make our clothing better; she could not provide us with food; she could not change the terrible segregated conditions under which we lived. She could introduce us to the world of reading, the world of books and that is what she did. " - unknown
From evidence submitted to The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future - 1999:
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[Quote No.12496] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Literacy arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the individual who is striving for fulfilment, happiness and personal benefit by learning how to read and write. " - UNESCO
Institute for Education, Hamburg
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[Quote No.12498] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life." - Dolly Parton
speaking about the Dollywood Foundation in the Radio Time, 22 December 2001
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[Quote No.12499] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.[or her]" - Maya Angelou
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[Quote No.12500] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book." - Coolio
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[Quote No.12549] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives." - Robert M. Hutchins
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[Quote No.12621] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. [and give him access to a library or the internet.]" - Ellen Gilcrist
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[Quote No.12631] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how. " - Rudolf Franz Flesch
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[Quote No.12634] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence. " - Henri Estienne
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[Quote No.12652] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. " - William John Bennett
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[Quote No.12760] Need Area: Friends > Children
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.12917] Need Area: Friends > Children
"God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. " - Mary Howitt
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[Quote No.13018] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of a least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in." - Rachel Carson
naturalist and author
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[Quote No.13148] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned.
" - Anonymous
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[Quote No.13220] Need Area: Friends > Children
"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a person's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
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[Quote No.13319] Need Area: Friends > Children
"What is morality? It is making a decision on what is right, not on what is pleasurable. The moral person never acts upon 'What would I like to do?' rather on 'What is the right thing to do?' Teach your children morality and they will surely be successful persons." - Robert Schuller
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[Quote No.13515] Need Area: Friends > Children
"When I got my library card, that's when my life began." - Rita Mae Brown
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[Quote No.13601] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends toward the formation of character. Let parents bear this ever in mind." - Hosea Ballou
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[Quote No.13780] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. [Life is the first gift from our parents. The second gift, making the first worthwhile, is how to be productive and happy ourselves and to help others be so too.]
" - Samuel Smiles
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[Quote No.13781] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family." - Rev. Thomas Scott
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[Quote No.13785] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [...and the resulting unhappiness. This is why teaching has been called the greatest responsibility of parenthood, society and the individual themselves.]" - William Ellery Channing
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[Quote No.13821] Need Area: Friends > Children
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give...[them] no shade when...[they] are old." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
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[Quote No.13825] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Early knowledge is very valuable capital with which to set forth in life. It gives one an advantageous start. If the possession of knowledge has a given value at fifty, it has a much greater value at twenty-five; for there is the use of it for twenty-five of the most
important years of your life; and it is worth more than a hundred per cent interest. Indeed, who can estimate the interest of knowledge? Its price is above rubies." - Winslow
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[Quote No.13943] Need Area: Friends > Children
"One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters." - George Herbert
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[Quote No.13982] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Of all hardness of heart there is none so inexcusable as that of parents toward their children. An obstinate, inflexible, unforgiving temper is odious upon all occasions; but here it is unnatural.
" - Joseph Addison
English poet and dramatist (1672-1719).
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[Quote No.13983] Need Area: Friends > Children
"With joy the parent loves to trace,
Resemblance in his children's face:
And, as he forms their docile youth,
To walk the steady paths of truth,
Observes them shooting into men,
And lives in them life o'er again." - Robert Lloyd
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[Quote No.14003] Need Area: Friends > Children
"No school is more necessary to children than patience... " - Richter
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[Quote No.14072] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers." - Christian Nestell Bovee
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[Quote No.14159] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society." - Daniel Webster
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[Quote No.14226] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make happy, not gold.
" - Ludwig van Beethoven
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[Quote No.14280] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity. [Therefore how important it is to set them on the right path...for Virgil was right when he said ‘as the twig is bent, the tree inclines’]" - J. Hawes
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[Quote No.14281] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it." - Sir W. Temple
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[Quote No.14282] Need Area: Friends > Children
"What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle." - J.T. Fields
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[Quote No.14283] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Reckless youth makes rueful age." - Benjamin Franklin
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[Quote No.14284] Need Area: Friends > Children
"As a twig is bent the tree inclines." - Virgil
Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC)
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[Quote No.14380] Need Area: Friends > Children
"He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. [But he that gives bad advice and bad example, will destroy continuously]" - Sir Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) English jurist, scientist, author and philosopher
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[Quote No.14444] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Mere family [reputation] never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame." - Mikhail D. Skobeleff
(1843-1882) Russian general
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[Quote No.14667] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, 'Those things which they will put in practice when they become men'. [The best education is an education for their future life]
" - Diogenes
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[Quote No.14681] Need Area: Friends > Children
"But what instruction does the babe bring to the mother! She learns patience, self-control, endurance..." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) American Unitarian Clergy
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[Quote No.14682] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, and new moral motives come vaguely up to him." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
(1823-1911) American Unitarian Clergy
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[Quote No.14779] Need Area: Friends > Children
"I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning; for that is a sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention: because you have done a great deal, when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards." - Samuel Johnson
(1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
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[Quote No.14784] Need Area: Friends > Children
"A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is wrong to his family. Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. And the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices." - Horace Mann
(1796-1859) American educator
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[Quote No.14879] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Truthfulness is a corner stone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation.
" - J. Davis
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[Quote No.14915] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit - a reputation, character." - John D. Rockefeller
(1839-1937) American Capitalist and philanthropist
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[Quote No.14916] Need Area: Friends > Children
"Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death." - Eleanor Roosevelt
(Wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt) (1884-1962) American social worker and educator
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[Quote No.14925] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is easier and better to build selflessly virtuous children than to repair adults consumed by selfish vices." - Unknown
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[Quote No.14964] Need Area: Friends > Children
"It is ominous for the future of a child when the discipline he receives is based on the emotional needs of the disciplinarian rather than on any consideration of the child's own needs." - Gordon W. Allport
(1897-1967) American psychologist
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[Quote No.14965] Need Area: Friends > Children
"The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day." - Dr. O. A. Battista
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[Quote No.14966] Need Area: Friends > Children
"You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes; and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.14967] Need Area: Friends > Children
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings." - Hodding Carter
(1907-1972) American journalist and author
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