"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the
minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and
animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual
contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity,
and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue.
If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they
will grovel all their lives." --John Adams