Thomas Lickona

Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility

by Thomas Lickona

Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents...

Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

by Thomas Lickona

Don't Let Our Kids Flunk Life

The novelist Walker Percy once observed, "Some people get all As but flunk life." Succeeding in life takes character. In Character Matters, award-winning psychologist-educator...

Raising Good Children: From Birth Through The Teenage Years

by Thomas Lickona

Raising decent, caring, and responsible children is the most complex and challenging job in every parent’s life—and an increasingly difficult one in today’s society. Here is the most authoritative book...