Danny K. Davis Quotes

There's something incredibly vulnerable about middle school for me. We're really impressionable during that period. The cement's still wet, so to speak, and a lot of things later in life are born during that season.

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.

Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

When I was 11, I had just started my comprehensive school.

When you're 14, 15, the most important thing in your life should be education, because that's what's going to set you up for success as an adult. So if coming out now will hinder your education, maybe we take some time to think about whether the time is right or not. Those are my concern.

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

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

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

I really wanted to go to high school and be normal.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans, keep up with sophisticatedly crude discussions, and be able to go out on their own without supervision.

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Abundant research has shown that children raised by two parents in an ongoing union are more likely to develop the self-discipline and self-confidence that make for success in life …

Integrated schools help students achieve academic success in the present and personal success in the future.

I will feel like a success if I raise my children to be kind and happy people.

It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people.

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.

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

When you're young, influences count.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings.