Jesse Jackson Quotes

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

Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?

The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

We need to get back to reasoning and thinking things through. The future generation is being brought up in greed and without a true understanding of civics. There is no more emphasis on knowledge and time. As a society we need to process ideas and understand what certain principles are based upon.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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 the moral and physical fiber of its manhood and its womanhood is not a state concern, the question is, what is?

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.

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

It's okay, it's cool to be Indian and there are cool people that are Indian and doing really well. It's okay to be brown and cool.

Keeping young people out of community work sponsored by faith groups means an entire generation won't be as well-equipped to think and believe for themselves.

I think a sense of history and perspective for our young people today is essential.

You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

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

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

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

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.