Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.
Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.
Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.
Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images.
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.
I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.
