Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Study to learn, do not study to pass.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

If we only stopped to listen to them for a few minutes, kids could tell us that we move too fast, for their good and ours.