Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

The French talk about education, the education of their children. They don't talk about raising kids. They talk about education. And that has nothing to do with school. It's this kind of broad description of how you raise children and what you teach them.

If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.

We didn't try to raise QBs we just tried to raise kids.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

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.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids.

If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

We should try to teach the young people values that are useful to them whether they become professional athletes or not.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people