“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
John W. Gardner
“I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.”
Hesiod
“Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Maya Angelou
“Young people need models, not critics”
John Wooden
“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.”
Pope John Paul II
“The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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