In 2003, the landmark study “The Spiritual Life of College Students” was published. Therein, UCLA researchers surveyed more than 100,000 first-time college students from over 200 American colleges and ...
We want our kids to develop strong characters. But we don't want them to merely have strong characters; we want them to have good characters. A person with good character possesses virtue, which is a ...
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -Will Durant Aristotle believed that many things were needed for optimal moral development, but one of the most important ...
I’ve always liked the TV character Ted Lasso’s definition of moral education. Being a soccer coach, he said, is “about helping these young fellas be the best versions of themselves on and off the ...
Dr. P.J. Hill, who is a senior fellow of the Property and Environment Research Center and professor emeritus of Wheaton College, will present “Moral Formation in the Modern Market Economy” on Monday, ...
Examines two opposing theories of moral development, that of Lawrence Kohlberg who believes that there are stages of moral development tied to cognitive development, and that of the learning theorists ...
Editor’s note: This article, a response to “The crisis in Catholic theology” by Grant Kaplan, is part of The Conversation, a new initiative of America Media offering diverse perspectives on important ...