#chi

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#money #people #reason #teaching

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#does #education #how #intelligent #little

Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#better #children #communities #demonstrate #drop

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#actor #chicago #elementary #elementary school #funny

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. ↗

— Felix Bloch

#able #achieve #agree #am #before

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#children #dad #dads #engaged #full

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream! ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#class #dream #even #geometry #going

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. ↗

— Robert Bloch

#heart #i #jar #keep #shelf

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#call #children #dread #dreads #four

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest