Value-Based Education Quotes

When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world.

There must be a way of promoting human values without involving religion, based on common sense, experience and recent scientific findings.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Parents and teachers alike are alarmed by this top-down approach to education that wrongly ties education money for states to the adoption of academic standards that do not fully reflect the values of South Carolina.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

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

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

The way to improve our schools is not more money, but the reintroduction of moral and spiritual values, as well as the four R's: reading, 'riting, 'rithmatic, and Rush.

Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

The reason I fight for the arts as well as against hunger is because the arts are the qualitative way, are the effective way, are the traditional way we learn to make value decisions about who and what we are.

Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.