The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number of roles and to encounter other perspectives. — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that moral stages must primarily be the products of the child's interaction with others rather than the direct unfolding of biological… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
The unit of effectiveness of education is not the individual but the group. An individual's moral values are primarily important for society as they… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad. — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us that the… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
Insofar as each of us has been through the moral stages and has held the viewpoint of each stage, we should be able to… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools, they represent… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
If our psychology seems crude and weak in what it can say about the great human experiences, it is better to make that clear… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
