Occupation: Former United States Secretary Of Education Birth: July 31, 1943
All real education is the architecture of the soul..
I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out..
There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adul….
Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Go….
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion..
Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give t….
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue..
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning..
Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions an….
Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes….
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethic….
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it..
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language..
"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that….
If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admi….
Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for….
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies..
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms..
The President is the symbol of who the people of the United States are. He is the person who stands for us in the eyes of the world and the eyes of ….
When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What w….
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