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 LickonaManners will become important to children only if they are important to their parents.
Thomas LickonaCharacter Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.
Thomas LickonaOne'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 urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.
Thomas Lickona