We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Interpretation
We can't control the future, but we can equip our children to face it.
This quote emphasizes the importance of preparing children with the skills, knowledge, and resilience they need to navigate the uncertainties of the future. While we may not be able to predict or shape what lies ahead, we can influence our children's ability to adapt and thrive in an ever-changing world.
In practice
During a school board meeting discussing curriculum changes.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. That is the well from which we scientists draw our nourishment and energy. And also, learn the math. Math is the language of nature, so we have to learn this language.
Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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