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Why cannot some of the money the government spends be used to take the children and youths who will become criminals, and educate them and put them into suitable environments so that they will become normal people?

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

I love anything to do with kids, anything to better our youth and put a smile on anybody's face is really what I do it for.

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don't tell a kid what's right and wrong. He knows what's right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Children spend the greater part of their time outside the school. Here they come under the influence of the street and frequently of hostile hooligan elements. Questions concerning the organization of the children's out-of-school hours, the Young Pioneer movement, the provision of libraries and workshops and social work for the children, are of tremendous importance

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

We need to sort the kids out and educate them properly. After all, they are our future.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

And some of the best coaching you can do is not telling kids something.

Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.

As a mum of two myself, I know how important it is to encourage your kids to get involved in a variety of different skills as they grow up.

I wouldn't be educating children if I did not believe in human potential.

Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.

It is better to support schools than jails.

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.