Teaching Respect Quotes

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings.

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to unjust authority. Children are persons. They are small persons whose perfect souls have not yet been ground through the meat grinder of slavery.