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.
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.
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.
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.
Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.
Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.
We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
