You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.
Everything that we used to think got taught at home now seemingly has to be taught in the public school system, and something is going to get lost in the process.
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?
I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.
In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.
I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots of love and it's never an easy road for us. But in the deepest recesses, I do have my mother's values.
You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.
I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
An authentic faith-which is never comfortable or completely personal-always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.
It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.
