Robert Owen Quotes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will develop the next technologies, medical cures, and global industries, while mitigating their unintended effects, or they will fail to do these things and consign us all to oblivion.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

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

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.

A city cannot survive if it does not educate its young.

Educate, educate, educate!

I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.

Train any population rationally, and they will be rational. Furnish honest and useful employments to those so trained, and such employments they will greatly prefer to dishonest or injurious occupations. It is beyond all calculation the interest of every government to provide that training and that employment; and to provide both is easily practicable.

I rejoice in having so favorable an opportunity of felicitating the State of Rhode Island on the co-operation I am sure to find in the measures adopted by the guardians of literature in this place, for improving the morals of the rising generation, and inculcating upon their minds principles peculiarly calculated for the preservation of our rights and liberties. You may rely on whatever protection I may be able to afford in so important an object as the education of our youth.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.

There's a million things wrong with government that need to get fixed, but none of its ever going to get fixed unless we start educating our children better.