13 Lawrence Kohlberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lawrence Kohlberg

American Educator

Born: Oct 25, 1927

Died: Jan 19, 1987

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Essentially, social education is moral education, and moral education is preparation for citizenship... When Jefferson and others advocated public education, it was to prepare for citizenship in a new, constitutional, democratic society. Lawrence Kohlberg

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I have always tried to be clear that my states are stages of justice reasoning, not of emotions, aspirations, or action. Lawrence Kohlberg

Justice Emotions Action States Tried Clear Always Stages Aspirations Reasoning

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 or neurological structures. Lawrence Kohlberg

Others Moral Must Direct Seems Rather Structures Neurological Primarily Obvious Than Child Interaction Unfolding Stages Products Biological

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 contribute to a moral social climate, not as they induce particular pieces of behavior. Lawrence Kohlberg

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Piaget is correct in assuming a culturally universal age development of a sense of justice, involving progressive concern for the needs and feelings of others and elaborated conceptions of reciprocity and equality. Lawrence Kohlberg

Needs Justice Age Equality Feelings Sense Assuming Others Progressive Correct Development Involving Concern Universal

Although it may be true that the notion of teaching virtues such as honesty or integrity arouses little controversy, it is also true that vague consensus on the goodness of these virtues conceals a great deal of actual disagreement over their definitions. Lawrence Kohlberg

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

Experience Opportunity Other Moral Seem Variety Take Main Development Encounter Roles Social Perspectives Amount Number

If I can see my own recollections, like many adolescents, I was a Platonic realist. I believed in the reality of ideas, of the big nouns, and believed that one's life was determined by the ideas of the true, the good, and the beautiful which one held. 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 and to mark where we must go than to ignore it. Lawrence Kohlberg

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It is hardly plausible to view a whole succession of logics as an evolutionary and functional program of innate wiring, particularly in light of the fact that the most mature logical structures are reached only by some adults. Lawrence Kohlberg

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