Moral Education Quotes

• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Leadership, Education, Business

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• We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Bullying, School, Mean

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

  George Sand

  Heart, Attention, Moral

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.

  Andrew Linzey

  Beauty, Education, Creativity

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• When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Education, Religious, Racism

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• If you can dream it, you can achieve it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

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• A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

  Albert Einstein

  Sympathy, God, Death

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.39, Broadway Books

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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• If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Reality, African American

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Sermon at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 28, 1954.

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• Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.

  African Spir

  Discipline, Bears, Morality

  "Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir". Book by Hélène Claparède-Spir, p. 59, 1937.

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• If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Positive, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Mar 31, 2013

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Law, Moral Behavior

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

  Garry Trudeau

  Self Esteem, Character, Sides

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• Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

  H. G. Wells

  Religious, Sacrifice, Self

  H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.2683, e-artnow

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  My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Beautiful, Mom

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

  George Will

  Important, Spheres, Ethics

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education of children is much too important a matter to be built on such foundations.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Christian, Children, Mistake

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers.

  Benjamin Spock

  Spiritual, Teacher, Sex

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2004). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 8th Edition”, p.452, Simon and Schuster

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• Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Games, Moral

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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