Howard Gardner Quotes

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.

A family is where character is formed, values are learned, ethics are created, and society preserved.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.

They're really nice kids. Michael is really raising them properly and right.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

Teach your children everything that you're not, because they will pick up on everything that you are.

Cape Verde produces good people.

No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

I'm the one person who wears the words 'hustle, loyalty, respect' on my T-shirts and merchandise. My audience is children. It's very flattering to see a kid wear your T-shirt; it's even more flattering to have a dad come up to you and say, 'I watch you with my kid. Keep doing what you're doing. You're a role model for my son.'

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real solid manhood, character, integrity and leadership, the more consistent you can be in the person's life and teach them those things at a younger age, and then the better off they'll be.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

My actions and the things I say and do, I wonder if they have an effect on my daughter and the way she's going to be as a person. I just want her to be a good person.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

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

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.