Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.
Thomas LickonaWe 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 reason.
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 LickonaCharacter Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.
Thomas Lickona