15,393 Quotes About Children

I refuse to accept failure. If we are going to succeed in education, we must do more than everyone else.-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

Unfortunately, every year thousands of students end up in one or more of these categories: jail, pregnant, dropping out, gangs, or dead where this vicious cycle will only get worse unless someone else changes this irreplaceable system.- -Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

Adults have led education for eons and don't let students have any say. If this is going to work, we need a different approach.-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

Real gases behaved like ideal gases as long as they remained in stable conditions. When the environment changed, either with increased temperature or mounting pressure, they began to deviate from their regular nature and at some point, crossed over to the less-than-ideal state. If deviating form perfection was the law of nature, why were children expected to be perfect in an imperfect world?

With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures that sit poised on the horizon of the future. And although we ignorantly relegate such roles to some lower caste status, we would be wise to understand that the role of a mother sets the cadence of the future.

Being a mother is not about ‘birthing a child into the world.’ Rather, it is about repeatedly ‘birthing into the child’ a steady sense of their inestimable worth, a prized understanding of their authentic self, a conviction that the impossible is largely the stuff of myth, and an utterly unwavering belief that the cold actions of men never represent the warm heart of God. It is the relentless act of birthing these things into the innermost soul of a thirsty child that makes a woman a mother.

A classroom with twenty students and one teacherHas twenty-one students and twenty one-teachers.

It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.