Lawrence Kohlberg

“Just as there are parallel cognitive stages, there are parallel moral stages.”

“The main source of the dissatisfaction is the growing realization that the existing institutions of society are not producing the good life.”

“The highest stage of moral development is the stage of universal ethical principles.”

“Moral education, then, is the stimulation of the 'natural' development of the individual child's own moral judgments and capacities.”

“Moral development, in turn, is defined as the process through which children develop proper attitudes and behaviors toward other people in society, based on social and cultural norms, rules, and laws.”

“Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards which have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.”

“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.”

“Social justice is not a moral ideal in the usual sense; it is a standard of critical evaluation of the existing social order.”

“Education is the art of making man ethical.”

“The most advanced moral reasoning is based on principles of justice and individual rights.”