Becoming a Good Person and Leading a Good Life

Harvard HGSE

How do we raise children to become good people and lead good lives? This module explores these questions. We’ll focus on two main pillars of a good life—morality and romantic love—and on the capacities children need to develop to be moral and to engage in gratifying, ethical romantic and sexual relationships. How do we develop in children and teens the capacities, for example, to be caring, justice-minded and courageous? How do we cultivate in them moral purposes, i.e. goals that…