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- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1928 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 163 –181
- DOI
- 10.1037/14850-008
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Our prolonged infancy, in addition to its other meanings (see pages 12 ff.), has remarkable significance for the development of character. We are born without characters as we are without ideas. Both are achievements. Both require years for maturation. The average parent is more concerned about the character of his child than about the particular facts he masters or fails to master, for the father perceives truth in the striking Eastern saying, "Thought makes habit, habit makes character, character makes destiny, destiny makes eternity." He may not agree with us that thought and habit may be divorced, but he knows that character and habit can never be. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Sep 21, 2015
Keywords: discipline; character; habit