Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

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

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

It takes a caring community to raise a child that will be a whole person and a contributing citizen.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

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.

We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

Education promotes equality and lifts people out of poverty. It teaches children how to become good citizens. Education is not just for a privileged few, it is for everyone. It is a fundamental human right.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

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.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Education is the art of making man ethical.