Angela Duckworth Quotes

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

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

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

Become a good all-around human being.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

Working on problems and self-examination is a sign of strength.

It's not just teachers, but coaches are helping to shape the young people of tomorrow.

Kids in sports - it makes such an impact in life with the lessons that you learn.

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

Let's teach boys at school the personally and economically valuable skills of self-expression and emotional intelligence, of mediation and problem-solving.

Education is taken for granted. Teaching shops are different from building character.

It is hard to improve someone as a player, but is easier to help someone become a better person.

All parents want their kids to be on a healthy track to success.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

There's a common problem: if a kid is not good at exams, they often think they are not skilled. Yet many of them do have the skills employers are looking for - but often we don't show them that, or teach them how to develop them, or celebrate them.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

My mom raised me to be a strong person.

Middle school students are at a critical time in their lives when making good choices matters - the decisions they make in these formative years have an impact on their future success.