Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.
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.
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality
Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.
Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.
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.
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over America. This means that right and wrong is dependent upon the circumstances.
I took ethics classes in college, and it always amazes me how they [tabloids] will blatantly say something that I did not say, in quotation marks. The first thing that we learned in ethics is that you better have it right. If you're putting quotation marks around something, it better be exactly what that person said.
We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.
Is virtue something that can be taught?
As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.
Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.
Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in ethics as part of their degree requirements.
We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.
I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
