Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of each generation advancing in intelligence and knowledge compared to the previous one.
Clarence Darrow's quote suggests that it is not only desirable but essential for children to surpass their parents in intelligence. This perspective highlights the role of education, innovation, and continuous learning in society, emphasizing that progress hinges on the ability of new generations to learn from and build upon the wisdom of their predecessors.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of education reform.
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding?
Chase after the truth like all hell.
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.
Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes have burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.
The trouble with law is lawyers.
We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.
Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
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