Character Building: A Guide for Parents and TeachersIn this book, author David Isaacs, an educationalist and parent, offers ideas and suggestions on how parents and teachers can help children's all-round development. The emphasis is on character building, approached from the viewpoint of moral habits. Professor Isaacs takes twenty-four virtues and discusses how the child - at different ages - can be encouraged to be obedient, industrious, sincere, prudent, generous, optimistic, sociable, and so on. There is no book on child development quite like this. |
Contents
The permanent value of the family | 1 |
Training children in human virtues | 11 |
GENEROSITY | 23 |
FORTITUDE | 33 |
OPTIMISM | 43 |
PERSEVERANCE | 52 |
ORDERLINESS | 62 |
RESPONSIBILITY | 72 |
PATIENCE | 156 |
JUSTICE | 168 |
OBEDIENCE | 178 |
PRUDENCE | 188 |
AUDACITY | 199 |
HUMILITY | 207 |
SIMPLICITY | 216 |
SOCIABILITY | 226 |
Common terms and phrases
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