"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"

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

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

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

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

"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"

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

"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"

"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts"