General habits of good students include: habits of study (being proactive about required materials and assignments) habits of timeliness (turning in work on time) habits of critical reflection and inquisitiveness, and various other habits cultivated by the best students.
So how can Aristotle’s notion of virtue as habit formation be applied to education in the 21st century? All learning requires the formation of habits, some of which are general and relate to learning and education as a whole, and some of which apply only within specific disciplines or fields of mastery. These virtuous character traits do not come to human beings naturally or fully formed from birth they must be continually cultivated and reinforced over time to become habitual and second nature to each individual. Learning to act within this virtuous middle ground, say to act courageously as opposed to cowardly or recklessly, takes continual training and reinforcement about which modern psychology later had much to say, regarding various forms of positive and negative reinforcement and conditioning.
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