Ourselves Quote by Lawrence Kohlberg

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

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

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

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

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

These youngsters hold that all morality is relative but that middle class morality is just plain bad.

— Lawrence Kohlberg

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

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

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

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

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

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

— Lawrence Kohlberg