Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

People need to be educated so that they can make intelligent moral choices

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

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

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.

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

My early research - I'm a social psychologist, and my early research was on how people make moral judgments. When I entered the field in 1987, everybody was looking at moral reasoning - how do kids reason about a moral dilemma? Should a guy steal a drug to save his wife's life?

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing. That's how most people thought.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.