12. What promotes or prevents good character ? 1. Heredity 2. Early childhood experience 3. Modeling by important adults & older youth 4. Peer influence 5. S ocial environment 6. Communications Media 7. Content taught in the schools 8. Specific situations and Roles
13. Good character is not formed automatically; it is developed over time through a sustained process of teaching, modeling, learning, and experience.
14. A person with good character encourages reflection on actions and personal responsibility
15. A person with good character believes that : the community/family must work together; integrates understanding, commitment to action, and action
38. DWIGHT EISENHOWER (1890-1969) The qualities of a great man are : vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character
39. RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882) -- American writer and philosopher The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out
40. OTTO VON BISMARCK (1815-1898) -- Chancellor of Germany in the late 19th century Politics ruins the character
41. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929-1968) Civil Rights leader The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically... Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education
42. ABIGAIL VAN BUREN ("Dear Abby") advice columnist The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back
43. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY (1800-1859) -- British writer and politician The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out