Why "Character Education"
“Moral education is not a new idea. It is, in fact, as old as education itself. Down through history, in countries all over the world, education has had two great goals: to help young people become smart and to help them become good.”
- Thomas Lickona, Ph.D.
“There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.”
- George Washington
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”
- Aristotle
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”
- Helen Keller
“A person of character is a good person, someone to look up to and admire.”
- Character Counts
“The new media culture is characterized by a deliberate attack upon truth. Good is no loner depicted as good. Evil is increasingly depicted as a means to achieve good. Children’s powers of discernment, their ability to tell right from wrong, are thereby undermined.”
- Michael O’Brien, A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child’s Mind
“To educate without a value system based on truth is to abandon young people to moral confusion, personal insecurity and easy manipulation. No country, not even the most powerful, can endure if it deprives its own children of this essential good.”
- Pope John Paul II