"Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree"

"Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides"

"Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other"

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college"

"Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth"

"At the heart of the Reggio Emilia approach is the belief that children are full of potential, competent, and capable of constructing their own learning"