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  • Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. John Dewey

    Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.Mark Twain

    The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher. Elbert Hubbard

    My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects. Robert Maynard Hutchins

    Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. Will Durant

    There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child. Frank A. Clark

    For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of harvest.The Talmud

    That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell

    Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. Meryl Streep

    Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge. Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs. Martin H. Fischer

    But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. Saki (H. H. Munro)

    Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible -- the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir

    [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. Mark Twain

    An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. Author Unknown

    Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. Marion C. Garretty

    I am not a teacher; only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as of you. George Bernard Shaw

    Education is too important to be left solely to educators. Francis Keppel

    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

    The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. George Santayana

    It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. Robert G. Ingersoll

    An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. Spanish Proverb

    The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. Sydney J. Harris

    The mother's heart is the child's school-room. Henry Ward Beecher

    If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.William Blake

    To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Josh Billings

    The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert Maynard Hutchins

    The formative period for building character for eternity is in the nursery. The mother is queen of that realm and sways a scepter more potent than that of kings or priests. Author Unknown

    It is little short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not already completely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... I believe that one could even deprive a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness if one could force it with a whip to eat continuously whether it were hungry or not... Albert Einstein

    You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo Galilei

    Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. William Haley

    Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. Roger Lewin

    The historian is a prophet in reverse.Friedrich von Schlegel

    If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. Abigail Van Buren

    The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. Sydney J. Harris

    I try not to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.Mikhail Baryshnikov

    Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. Robert Fulghum

    One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert

    I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain

    The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. John Lubbock

    Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Edmund S. Wilson

    Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass

    We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.Chuck Palahniuk

    You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato

    There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff

    If you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does.Anthony Robbins

    Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. Edward Everett

    Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire. William B. Yeats

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May 8, 2012

A Powerful Way to Teach Values & Inspire Greatness in Children

No matter how much we try to shield them, kids today are bombarded with so many harmful influences.

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The truth is that we can’t live in a bubble, nor is that ideal. Despite our best efforts, they will be exposed to dark and negative things.

The best we can do is to strengthen their immunity and give them tools to fight dark influences.

In other words, it’s not about hiding them away from the world, but rather about giving them the power to thrive in it no matter what they encounter.

One simple yet extremely powerful way I do this is to display “Life Manifestos” in my home.

I learned this idea from my friend Stephen Palmer, who has created a company that creates typographic “manifesto” posters. The manifestos are designed to inspire greatness. They are constant reminders of cherished values and noble ideals.

When I saw Stephen’s manifesto’s I had to buy all of them and become an affiliate! They are each sooooooo good. They inspire ME!

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As soon as I put one on the wall, my children start reading them. They read them out loud, and I catch them lying about the room, dreamily staring at them. I know the messages are sinking into their conscious and subconscious minds, which will then impact their choices, actions, and habits.

The Family Manifesto reminds us that friends come and go, but family is forever. It helps us work as a team. When we mistreat each other, I remind us that we’re “Team Wilson,” that we’re best friends. It makes each of us feel valued and appreciated, which gives us more confidence.

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The “Live Extraordinary” Manifesto gives short but power-packed rules for living an extraordinary life. For example, “When you’re discouraged, forget yourself and uplift others.”

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The Entrepreneur and Producer manifestos teach us to never be content with the status quo — to dream and innovate to make the world better. They prove a case in point with what I am trying to do with my blog and online business. These manifestos teach my children to reject the entitlement mentality that is crippling America and to take personal responsibility for their actions and choices. Most importantly, they teach them to trust their intuition over peer pressure and their own fears.

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There is a brand new Leadership Education Manifesto that was just unveiled at the last Thomas Jefferson Education Forum in Salt Lake City. It’s so new, I don’t have it yet…but I will icon smile A Powerful Way to Teach Values & Inspire Greatness in Children   Here I am with Stephen at the Forum.

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The sun was so bright, you can’t see the whole thing, but it’s awesome! All of the manifestos were on display. You can see them up close and read the exact words used on Stephen’s website.

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These manifestos are definitely part of my home education curriculum. Over time, the messages will become engrained into the minds of my children, and the values and ideals they’ve read over and over will come to them at critical points in their lives.

As a result, they’ll make better decisions, they’ll strive to achieve more, and they’ll see through deceptions more easily.

No matter how we choose to educate our children, we should be looking for as many ways to inspire them as possible.

So I’m curious: If you were to write and display a manifesto for your children, what would it say?

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4 Comments

  1. Karina says:

    What a great article, Jenni!

    I can’t wait to hang the Leadership Education Manifesto. I want everyone to see it. I think it’s so inspiring.

    Each week we recite the Family Manifesto for Devotional. It’s a reminder for me to reach for the stars (since we’re not perfect) and keeps my priorities straight. My favorite line is “Come back to us.” That one line speaks volumes.

    I remember as a youth my mom leaving notes around the house with inspiring quotes written on them. They really impacted my decisions in life and affected me deeply.

    I believe that Life Manifestos will have the same inspiring effect.
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    • Jenni @ Mom Essentials says:

      That is awesome Karina! I think I will start reciting the Family Manifesto for devotional too. Thanks for that idea and your comments!

  2. Mauro Blanco says:

    These manifestos are so inspirational. Who doesn’t want their children to grow up as responsible individuals? Your post is very influential, thanks for sharing!

  3. Anne says:

    Wow! I love these, Jenni. They have such a wonderful feel to them, and such strong words that can cause such a positive influence in the home. Thank you for sharing these!

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