Character EducationCharacter Education

Character TraitCharacter TraitTrustworthinessTrustworthiness

Trustworthiness Definition:Trustworthiness Definition:

Being honest and reliable in Being honest and reliable in carrying out commitments, duties, carrying out commitments, duties,

and obligations.and obligations.

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• Always return items I have borrowed.

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• When others count on me to do what I say I will do.

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• honesty

• integrity

• loyalty

• reliability

• promise

• trust

• reputation

• commitment

• obligation

• truth

• candor

• confidence

Loyalty Definition:Loyalty Definition:

Making it a responsibility to promote Making it a responsibility to promote and protect the interests of people and protect the interests of people

and associations.and associations.

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• A loyal person supports and protects family, friends, community, and country.

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• A person whom is loyal doesn’t gossip or talk behind the backs of others.

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• A person who is loyal doesn’t violate ethical principles and doesn’t ask a friend to engage in wrongful activities.

Integrity Definition:Integrity Definition:

Behaving the same ethical way in Behaving the same ethical way in any situation or place; being your any situation or place; being your

best self.best self.

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• A person of integrity stands up for his/her beliefs about what is right and what is wrong.

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• A person of integrity shows commitment, courage, and self-discipline.

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• A person of integrity doesn’t get involved in things that he/she thinks are wrong, even under social pressure.

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Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

-Welsh Proverb

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

-Carl Jung

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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

-Andre Gide

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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

-William Hazlitt

““The Blind Woman and the The Blind Woman and the Physician.”Physician.”

-Aesop-Aesop

Discussion Questions for Discussion Questions for “The Blind Woman and the “The Blind Woman and the

PhysicianPhysician””

1. Do you think that the woman owes the physician anything?

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PhysicianPhysician””

2. Have you ever felt taken advantage of?

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PhysicianPhysician””

3. Why is it wrong to take advantage of others?

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4. Would you consider someone who takes advantage of others trustworthy?

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5. How can you avoid taking advantage of other people?