Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action. - Thomas Lickona
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.
- Thomas Lickona
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents. - Thomas Lickona
Manners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.
Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools. - Thomas Lickona
Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.
Morality is not a spectator sport. - Thomas Lickona
Morality is not a spectator sport.
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. - Thomas Lickona
Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's ev… - Thomas Lickona
Character is the sum of one's good habits (virtues) and bad habits (vices). These habits mark us and affect the ways in which we respond to life's ev…
Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who h… - Thomas Lickona
Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who h…
One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates … - Thomas Lickona
One's character is one's habitual way of behaving. We all have patterns of behavior or habits, and often we are quite unaware of them. When Socrates …
We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reaso… - Thomas Lickona
We need to be in control of ourselves - our appetites, our passions - to do right by others. It takes will to keep emotion under the control of reaso…
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