Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William Damon

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Last updated on November 9, 2024.

William Damon is a professor at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is one of the world's leading scholars of human development. Damon has done pioneering research on the development of purpose in life and wrote the influential book The Path to Purpose. Damon has helped design innovative educational methods such as peer collaboration, project-based learning, and the youth charter. Damon also is known for his studies of purposeful philanthropy. His current work includes a study exploring student purpose in higher education and a study of family purpose across generations. Dr. Damon writes on intellectual and social development through the lifespan.

Born: 1944

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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

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

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

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William Damon

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