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Thomas Lickona, born in 1943, is a renowned author whose works primarily focus on moral education, character development, and adolescent development.

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“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 events and challenges. Our character is our profile of habits and dispositions to act in certain ways.”

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“Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good.”

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“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 urged us to Know thyself, he clearly was directing us to come to know our habitual ways of responding to the world around us.”

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“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.”

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Book:Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

Source: Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

“Character Education helps to create an environment for caring and learning in schools.”

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“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.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

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Born: 1943
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Character Development in Schools and BeyondRelated source material

Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential VirtuesRelated source material

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and ResponsibilityRelated source material

Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage YearsRelated source material

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