Character Building: A Guide for Parents and Teachers

David Isaacs

Scepter Publishers, 2001 - Education - 273 pages

In 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 II: 11
• GENEROSITY: 23
• FORTITUDE: 33
• OPTIMISM: 43
• PERSEVERANCE: 52
• ORDERLINESS: 62
• RESPONSIBILITY: 72
• RESPECT FOR OTHERS: 82
• SINCERITY: 92
• MODESTY: 103
• MODERATION: 115
• FLEXIBILITY: 125
• LOYALTY: 134
• INDUSTRIOUSNESS: 144
• PATIENCE: 156
• JUSTICE: 168
• OBEDIENCE: 178
• PRUDENCE: 188
• AUDACITY: 199
• HUMILITY: 207
• SIMPLICITY: 216
• SOCIABILITY: 226
• FRIENDSHIP: 234
• UNDERSTANDING: 245
• PATRIOTISM: 254
• APPENDIXES: 261
• Short descriptions of virtues: 267

Bibliographic information

• Title: Character Building: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
• Author: David Isaacs
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Scepter Publishers, 2001
• ISBN: 1851825924, 9781851825929
• Length: 273 pages
• Subjects: Education / Aims & Objectives; Education / General; Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Family & Relationships / Parenting / General