“ Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap. ”
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“ The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter. ”
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“ The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter. ”
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“ Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ”
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“ People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people — people of character and moral literacy — can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and on some of its pervasive particulars. ”
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“ Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ”
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“ A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ”
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“ A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ”
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“ A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility. ”
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“ Today we speak about values and how it is important to "have them," as if they were beads on a string or marbles in a pouch. But these stories speak to morality and virtues not as something to be possessed, but as the central part of human nature, not as something to have but as something to be, the most important thing to be. ”
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“ A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility. ”
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“ Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty. ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ the formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult, ethical controversies of the day. First things first. And planting the ideas of virtue, of good traits in the young, comes first… ”
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“ Moorings and anchors come in handy in life; moral anchors and moorings have never been more necessary. ”
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“ A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility. ”
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