David Brooks Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

  David Brooks

  Summer, Home, School

  "Democratic aristocrats and blue collar Republicans". www.cnn.com. March 15, 2004.

• If you grow up in a home where actions don't lead to predictable consequences, you don't develop strategies to control your impulses.

  David Brooks

  Growing Up, Home, Action

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

• Some children lack tools to see their course in the world in far-sighted ways. Just introducing school vouchers won't change that. You have to have nurse-home partnerships, early childhood education, mentoring programs and so on. People learn from people they love.

  David Brooks

  Children, Home, School

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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