Character Development in a Nutshell
Character development is defined as the way a person changes over time in dealing with concerns of direction and quality of life. Herbert Spencer defines character as the inherent complex of attitudes that determine a person’s moral and ethical actions and reactions. Abigail van Buren states that the best indications of a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who cannot do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who cannot fight back. While it seems that there is an intentional effort to avoid even using the term “character development” in the major educational...
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Once when seated in a school lunch room with the principal of a high school and two local ministers, we became aware of a teacher with dining hall duties who was busy trying to restore order. She was consistent in calling out the name of the misbehaving student and stating, “behave yourself.” After hearing this over and over, I made a remark intended for the principal’s ears: “That teacher should be more specific and mention the offense instead of constantly repeating ‘behave yourself.’ In that these students don’t know exactly what the word ‘behave’ means,...
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