Character Education according to The University of New York College at Cortland is defined as follows:
Character education seeks to develop virtue—human excellence—as the foundation of a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life and a just, compassionate, and flourishing society. Character education takes deliberate steps to cultivate moral and intellectual virtues through every phase of school life—the example of adults, the relationships among peers, the handling of discipline, the resolution of conflict, the content of the curriculum, the process of instruction, the rigor of academic standards, the environment of the school, the conduct of extracurricular activities, and the
involvement of parents. Everything that happens in the life of the school is character education, because everything affects character. http://www2.cortland.edu/dotAsset/ce74fb3a-10eb-4bb3-bfed-932141e0bfff.pdf
Character education seeks to develop virtue—human excellence—as the foundation of a purposeful, productive, and fulfilling life and a just, compassionate, and flourishing society. Character education takes deliberate steps to cultivate moral and intellectual virtues through every phase of school life—the example of adults, the relationships among peers, the handling of discipline, the resolution of conflict, the content of the curriculum, the process of instruction, the rigor of academic standards, the environment of the school, the conduct of extracurricular activities, and the
involvement of parents. Everything that happens in the life of the school is character education, because everything affects character. http://www2.cortland.edu/dotAsset/ce74fb3a-10eb-4bb3-bfed-932141e0bfff.pdf