Ernest Istook Quotes

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.

There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train and reward more such teachers. But here's what some new studies are also showing: We need better parents. Parents more focused on their children's education can also make a huge difference in a student's achievement.

Parents are supposed to instruct their kids. It doesn't mean they necessarily have that gift of teaching.

Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility.

The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

If a child goes the wrong way, it is not the child who is to be blamed; it is the parents who are responsible.

This whole head of the home thing has been blown way out of proportion. Some guys just take it way too far. Some parents take it way too far. Yet children need guidance. They need a parent to help and guide them. They also need a friend. They need a confidant.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.