As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
Interpretation
Parents should balance encouragement and honesty in supporting their children during challenging times such as college applications.
In this quote, Laurene Powell Jobs reflects on the dual roles parents must play in their children's lives, particularly during high-stress situations like college applications. She emphasizes the importance of being supportive and proud, rather than harsh or critical, advocating for a nurturing approach that fosters confidence and positivity in her children.
In practice
In a speech at a parents' meeting about college-bound students.
It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
Family life is the backbone of mankind, and that life is dependent upon mutual giving, sharing, and receiving from each other. It entails the proper use of each other's successes and failures for mutual up-building.
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