George H. W. Bush Quotes

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

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

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

Education is the art of making man ethical.

In vain are Schools, Accademics and universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years…How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality and Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn that their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.

An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer

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

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

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

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

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

Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

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.

I think it's very hard in this day and age to raise little girls with morals, ethics and values, and them knowing that they are precious creations and that they are important.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

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

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

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?

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

I think it is very important to build the moral fibre of the youth. Moral education should be part of the curriculum, and I will work towards introducing that.

Morals are an acquirement -- like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis -- no man is born with them.

If you want young people to take right and wrong seriously, you must put them in the presence of people who take right and wrong seriously.

If we do not prepare children to be good citizens; if we do not develop their capacities, if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hearts with love of truth and duty, and a reverence for all things sacred and holy, then our republic must go down to destruction as others have gone before it.