Herbert Spencer Quotes

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

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

I believe that children have to grow up as all-round personalities, but it cannot be at the cost of academics.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.

A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.

There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.