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The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Kids are no fools: they're very sophisticated, they don't miss a lot; they don't miss nuance.