Ezra Cornell Quotes

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I love working with kids.

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.

I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

I've worked with children all my life.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.

We all want to raise our children well.

Working with a kid is just so interesting to see.

I adore children. If I weren't an actor, I would be a teacher or work with small children in some way. I feel happy in their company.

Obviously, as parents, we want to do what's best for the kids.

It's the best feeling in life, when you see a little human, and they look to you, to learn something in life. It's a responsibility, but it's the best feeling in life.

Kids are an extension of you and it is important to raise them well.

This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged.

If we buy a plant of a horticulturist we ask him many questions as to its needs, whether it thrives best in sunshine or in shade, whether it needs much or little water, what degrees of heat or cold; but when we hold in our arms for the first time a being of infinite possibilities, in whose wisdom may rest the destiny of a nation, we take it for granted that the laws governing its life, health, and happiness are intuitively understood, that there is nothing new to be learned in regard to it.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.