“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?”
Source: A Prisoner of Birth

No. There’s something within inside of you that is really beautiful. And this is what the Knowledge reveals.
Portland, Oregon, 30 January 1977
1970s
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
Source: Thou Shalt Not Be Aware : Society's Betrayal of the Child

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”

"Credo" at his official website http://robertfulghum.com/index.php/fulghumweb/credo/; this may be partly influenced by remarks of Albert Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" The Saturday Evening Post (26 October 1929): I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten