Orson Scott Card Quotes

It takes a village to raise a child.

Image is something you construct, while reputation starts at home. If you are able to pass on solid values to your children, then they can become citizens of the world.

My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

If we do not prepare children to be good citizens; if we do not develop their capacities, if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hearts with love of truth and duty, and a reverence for all things sacred and holy, then our republic must go down to destruction as others have gone before it.

No adult can bear a child’s burden or grow up in his stead.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

We cannot hope only to leave our children a bigger car, a bigger bank account. We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.

There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach every child that, then we've taught them to be better people, better friends and better citizens.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss?

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-world. Never was a child made more noble and good by the fear of a hell.

Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.

People don't write about kids; you have to give them a lot of freedom, and that causes anarchy and that causes farce.