A Love Of Learning Has

Children Long To Know That They Are Lovable. And There Are Ways That Technology Can Help With That. But Ultimately It's Their Relationships With Their Parents, Their Grandparents, Their Peers, And Their Teachers That Help Them To Know That For Sure. A Child Can Learn The Word "hug" And The Letters H-u-g Through A Computer, But A Computer Can Never Give The Child A Hug.

Sometimes People Are Good, And They Do Just What They Should. But The Very Same People Who Are Good Sometimes Are The Very Same People Who Are Bad Sometimes. It's Funny But It's True. Its The Same Isn't It, For Me And . . .

Parents Are Like Shuttles On A Loom. They Join The Threads Of The Past With Threads Of The Future And Leave Their Own Bright Patterns As They Go.

I Don't Believe That Children Can Develop In A Healthy Way Unless They Feel That They Have Value Apart From Anything They Own Or Any Skill That They Learn. They Need To Feel They Enhance The Life Of Someone Else, That They Are Needed. Who, Better Than Parents, Can Let Them Know That?

I Wonder If We Might Pledge Ourselves To Remember What Life Is Really All About—not To Be Afraid That We're Less Flashy Than The Next, Not To Worry That Our Influence Is Not That Of A Tornado, But Rather That Of A Grain Of Sand In An Oyster! Do We Have That Kind Of Patience?