William Damon Quotes

• There has never in the history of the civilized world been a cohort of kids that is so little affected by adult guidance and so attuned to a peer world. We have removed grown-up wisdom and allowed them to drift into a self-constructed, highly relativistic world of friendship and peers.

  William Damon

  Education, Kids, Self

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• Our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding and behavior of large portions of the youth population in the United States today.

  William Damon

  Attitude, Educational, Priorities

  William Damon (2014). “Failing Liberty 101: How We Are Leaving Young Americans Unprepared for Citizenship in a Free Society”, p.3, Hoover Institution Press

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• Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

  William Damon

  Kids, Self, Mental Health

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