“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 19th/20th-century American adventurer and politician, Nobel Prize-winning U.S. president

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you. Worry that they are always watching you.” — Robert Fulghum, 20th-century American author

“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” — Proverbs, 22:6

“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” — Kahlil Gilbran

“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.” — John Locke, 17th-century English philosopher

“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.” — Peter de Vries

“But if you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy: that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly.” — Plato, ancient Greek philosopher

“Children need models rather than critics.” — Joseph Joubert

“It takes a long time to grow young.” — Pablo Picasso, 20th-century Spanish artist

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” — Gertrude Stein, 20th-century American writer

“It takes a whole village to raise a child.” — Ashanti proverb

“Educate the heart. Let us have good men.” — Hiram Powers

“The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.” — Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher

“The question for the child is not ‘Do I want to be good?’ but ‘Whom do I want to be like?’ ” — Bruno Bettelheim, 20th-century German/American child psychologist, author

“Example has more followers than reason.” — Bovee

“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” — Gen. Omar N. Bradley, 20th-century American military figure Josephson Institute of Ethics – 9841 Airport Blvd., #300 – Los Angeles, CA 90045

“If we are to reach real peace in this world … we shall have to begin with the children.” — Mohandas Gandhi, 20th-century Indian nonviolent civil rights leader

“Imitation is a necessity of human nature.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 19th/20th-century American jurist, Supreme Court justice

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.” — Emma Goldman, 19th/20th-century Russian-American anarchist writer, lecturer and activist