Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

A child's first teacher is its mother.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

They're not the sharpest people - babies. So, you must be everything to them.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

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

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The relation between parents and children is essentially based on teaching.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.

I have an equal amount of patience as my grade-school children, which is not great.

The fate of a child is in the hands of his parents.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

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