--- title: "6 Parents Focused Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Parents Focused quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Parents Focused sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/lisa-su-9120_asian_like-many-asian-parents-mine-were-very-f_381954.jpg" --- > [Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. My dad would quiz me with multiplication tables when I was about 5.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lisa-su/like-many-asian-parents-mine-were-very-focused-on-education-my-dad/) [Lisa Su](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lisa-su/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3fe/lisa-su-9120_asian_like-many-asian-parents-mine-were-very-f_381954.jpg) > [There's no question that a great teacher can make a huge difference in a student's achievement, and we need to recruit, train…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-friedman/there-s-no-question-that-a-great-teacher-can-make-a-huge-difference/) [Thomas Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/thomas-friedman-1784_achievement_there-s-no-question-that-a-great-teacher_1290231.png) > [“Parents get all focused on themselves, and they see their little babies start walkin' and talkin', and since they kinda look like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barry-lyga/parents-get-all-focused-on-themselves-and-they-see-their-little/) [Barry Lyga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barry-lyga/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/472/barry-lyga-3439_babies_parents-get-all-focused-on-themselves-an_1347189.png) > [My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-garner/my-parents-started-with-very-little-and-were-the-only-ones-in-their/) [Jennifer Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-garner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/jennifer-garner-4782_art_my-parents-started-with-very-little-and_2341994.jpg) > [“They suspected that children learned best through undirected free play—and that a child’s psyche was sensitive and fragile. During the 1980s and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amanda-ripley/they-suspected-that-children-learned-best-through-undirected-free/) [Amanda Ripley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amanda-ripley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/amanda-ripley-10708_bake-sale_they-suspected-that-children-learned-bes_2424062.jpg) > [There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-mvula/there-was-always-a-piano-in-the-house-when-i-was-growing-up-my-dad/) [Laura Mvula](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-mvula/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/laura-mvula-12464_about_there-was-always-a-piano-in-the-house-wh_3055769.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/parents-focused/#itemlist", "name": "Parents Focused Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Like many Asian parents, mine were very focused on education. 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