Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes to bed. Erroneous though these ideas are, they help the child comprehend that actions have causes. In this period, the child is not egocentric by choice. Parents should understand, says the University of Rochester's David Elkind, a leading Piaget scholar, that intellectual immaturity and not moral perversity is the reason why a preschooler continues to pester his mother even after she plainly tells him she has a headache...
...about ethics and the rules of games, and gently asked schoolchildren questions about the numbers and groupings of flowers and beads that he gave them to play with. His investigations led him to detailed observations on how children acquire such complicated concepts and abilities as space, geometry, causality, logic, moral judgment and memory. Le Patron, as he is known to associates, currently presides over a staff of 25 at his Institute of Educational Science and churns out most of his books and articles during long summer retreats at a farmhouse in the Alps...
...Puritan practice. In Pottstown, Pa., teen-agers have banded together in the Society to Bring Back Bundling as a distinct improvement over the variable climate and other distractions of, say, the drive-in theater and dead-end street. Reports the magazine: "Parents and preachers, roused by a badly bungled moral code, banned bundling; better heating in larger homes cooled it. Bundling has been rekindled by a spark from a new moral code." Said the president of the Pottstown bundlers: "In many colleges, boys and girls today are allowed in the dormitories without supervision. Surely our conduct is far above this...
...Hind's friends and then back to his own wife and child, whom he has neglected, and finally back to an exploration of himself. Hind, self-consciously tall at 6 ft. 7 in., does not know his own parents and was brought up by a guardian whose strict moral precepts still order his life. Perhaps this is why Hind gradually comes to think of himself as the savior of what McElroy calls the "placental" city. Hearing the police emergency siren, Hind "imagined vehicles fading to the side to give way, his own long arms stretching over the heights...
...Last year the tactics of a belligerent minority led the faculty to vote, under duress, to eliminate ROTC at Harvard. That vote should be reconsidered." the VAF statement said. "Individuals should have the opportunity and the right to choose whether or not participation in ROTC is moral and advantageous...