The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. — 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
