Plato Quotes

Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

All my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

One of the best things we can do for our country, for advancing our children, is to upgrade our child care system.

When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children.

You can actually alter a person's perception when they're that young. I mean, it can affect them in a very positive way.

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power.

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.

The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority.

Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

When you're very young, images that you upload into your very young mind tend to stay with you.

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That's the hardest part and that's what you are responsible for. Once you take that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."