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"No one has ever claimed that their character came from extrinsic rewards or public recognitions. As educators, people should want their efforts to lead children to develop internal motives to be a person of character so that wherever they go in life, they will take those motives, those character strengths, those virtues with them, rather than merely enacting them when the circumstances provide a motive external to themselves, such as when there are clear material rewards for being that way or when an authority is watching."

Marvin Berkowitz, Ph.D., Sanford N. McDonnell Professor of Character Education and UM System Thomas Jefferson Fellow