Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only one bit of advice. Get out of their way. Kids are born curious. Period.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.

Parents have got to become more involved in their children’s education.

I think children learn through their parents.

The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.

The child’s progress does not depend only on his age, but also on being free to look around him.

For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

Home is a child's first and most important classroom.

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to replicate the worst qualities of the parents.

The character of a child is formed largely during the first twelve years of his life. He spends 16 times as many waking hours in the home as in the school, and 126 times as many hours in the home as in the church. Each child is, to a great degree, what he is because of the ever-constant influence of home environment and the careful or neglectful training of parents. Home is the best place for the child to learn self-control, to learn that he must submerge himself for the good of another. It is the best place in which to develop obedience, which nature and society will later demand.

My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard.

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.