Nel Noddings

"Caring is a continuous process"

"The primary aim of education should be to develop caring people"

"Empathy is the heart of moral education"

"We cannot care for others without caring for ourselves"

"The capacity to care is what makes us human"

"Education must promote the development of caring persons"

"Listening is a form of spiritual practice"

"Dialogue requires genuine openness to the other"

"Care ethics begins with attention to the particular"

"We grow through relationships of care and trust"

"The most important subject in schools is how to care"

"Moral life begins in relationships"

"Teaching is fundamentally an act of caring"

"We must listen to understand, not to respond"

"Care requires presence and attention"

"Every person deserves to be heard"

"Caring involves receptivity to others"

"Ethics begins with concrete relations"

"The self develops through caring relationships"

"We are responsible for how we respond to others"

"Genuine education requires genuine dialogue"

"Care is the most basic human need"

"Attentiveness is the first ethical act"

"We learn to care by being cared for"

"Moral development is relational development"

"The caring relation is the fundamental relation"

"To care is to act not by fixed rule but by feeling"

"We must see others as they wish to be seen"

"Care ethics recognizes human interdependence"

"The capacity to care grows through practice"