In this essay, Johannes Giesinger discusses the educational significance of Immanuel Kant's conception of human dignity. According to Kant, Giesinger claims, children can and should be educated for dignity: on the one hand, children realize their dignity by developing the capacity for moral autonomy; on the other hand, this capacity can only evolve if children's sense of their own dignity--that is, their self-respect--is awakened. Educating children means, for Kant, helping them to develop a proper relation with themselves and thereby become moral persons. (Contains 27 footnotes.)