The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Application 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Feel 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Character 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Character 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Behavior Copy Share Image
These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad. — Lawrence Kohlberg Bad 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Character 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Ourselves 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,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Achievement 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Consequence 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,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Beautiful 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… — Lawrence Kohlberg Better Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality. — Lawrence Kohlberg Character Copy Share Image
Piaget is correct in assuming a culturally universal age development of a sense of justice, involving progressive concern for the needs and… — Lawrence Kohlberg Age Copy Share Image
The first meaning of 'cognitive' for us is that observations of others are made phenomenologically: i.e., by attempting to take the role… — Lawrence Kohlberg Meaning Copy Share Image
Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was… — Lawrence Kohlberg Education Copy Share Image
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon… — Lawrence Kohlberg Action Copy Share Image
I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action. — Lawrence Kohlberg Action Copy Share Image
The normative theoretical claim that a higher stage is philosophically a better stage is one necessary part of a psychological explanation of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Better Copy Share Image
All individuals in all cultures use the same thirty basic moral categories, concepts, or principles, and all individuals in all cultures go… — Lawrence Kohlberg Go Copy Share Image
The main experiential determinants of moral development seem to be amount and variety of social experience, the opportunity to take a number… — Lawrence Kohlberg Character Copy Share Image
It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in… — Lawrence Kohlberg Light Copy Share Image
Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not… — Lawrence Kohlberg Bright Copy Share Image
The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict… — Lawrence Kohlberg Change Copy Share Image
The human's being right to do as he pleases without interfering with someone else's rights is a formula defining rights prior to… — Lawrence Kohlberg Being Copy Share Image
