“The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one realized most how keenly how immoral it can be to believe too much in morality, and how much more precious is a little humanity than all the rules in the world.” WorldGivingBelieveChildrenLittlesHumanityParentPoorMoralToo MuchMoralityTrainingMajorityImmoralDomainPsychologistQuestionable Author:Jean Piaget
“The discussion of the game of marbles seems to have led us into rather deep waters. But in the eyes of children the history of the game of marbles has quite as much importance as the history of religion or of forms of government. It Is a history, moreover, that is magnificently spontaneous; and it was therefore perhaps not entirely useless to seek to throw light on the child's judgment of moral value by a preliminary study of the social behaviour of children amongst themselves.” ChildrenLightSeemsGovernmentEyeFormValuesGamesSocialWaterMoralStudyJudgmentImportanceUselessDiscussionBehaviourSpontaneousMarbleForms Of GovernmentMoral ValuesMoral JudgmentDeep WaterEyes Of A Child Author:Jean Piaget
“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.” MindChildrenLongMadeFactsEyeDesireValuesInterestMoralFailingDemandRemainsHarmContactAcquireEgocentric Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.” ShouldChildrenNaturalMoralElementsStressLaysMotiveSpheresDomainTangibleRealist Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.” HumansMeanFactsIndividualSocialReligiousAnimalMoralCasesPsychologyPressureFundamentalsInstinctEtcInternalsOrganismsHeredity Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
“Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.” MindMoralIdealsPressureRegardIndependentAutonomy Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child
