This conflict of arguments is intended to produce a feeling of disequilibrium young people who are approaching the threshold of a new stage, so that the basis for their thinking begins to change and they are hoisted to the new level.
In summary, Kohlberg objected to a pair of commonly practiced systems of oral education : 1. The “thoughtless system of moralizing by individual teachers and principals when children deviate from minor administrative regulations” and 2. “the effort to inculcate the majority values, particularly as reflected in vague stereotypes about moral character”. In pace of these he recommended a system that stimulates “ the ‘natural’ development of the individual child’s own moral judgment and of the capacities allowing him to use his own moral judgment to control his behavior.” The purpose is to aid the child “ to take the next step in a direction toward which he is already tending, rather than imposing an alien pattern on him”
A further application of Kohlberg‘s theory takes the form of the just community. Kohlberg used this term to identify the practice of using the daily moral dilemmas faced in school as the subject of students’ study of moral decision making. The just-community approach was tried out I an alternative school that operated under the aegis of a larger, ”regular” high school. The sixty or so