Parenting & Family Quote by Roger Moore

Moore’s line has the easy charm of someone who spent a career making sophistication look effortless, but the idea underneath is quietly radical: the classroom isn’t just a place to stockpile skills, it’s a moral relay station. He’s not arguing for religion-in-school or stern discipline; he’s arguing for social habits - love, generosity, good manners - as teachable, transferable technologies. The phrasing “some of that will drift” is doing a lot of work. It admits you can’t legislate virtue, you can only seed it, then trust the breeze.

The subtext is a gentle indictment of the adult world. Parents are supposed to be the primary educators in values; Moore flips that hierarchy with a grin. “Who knows” is the wink: he’s proposing a reversal that sounds hopeful but also hints at parental failure, or at least parental exhaustion. If home has become too busy, too stressed, too atomized to reliably model kindness, then schools pick up the slack - and kids become the unexpected ambassadors of civility.

Context matters: Moore’s public persona was built on polished manners (Bond’s suavity, raised to parody at times), and his real-life humanitarian work gave him credibility talking about ethics without sounding preachy. In an era of culture-war fights over what schools “should” teach, he sidesteps ideology and sells values as practical contagion. It’s optimism with a sharp edge: adults may be stuck in their grooves, but children, still forming their scripts, can smuggle better ones home.