How do education and social learning influence moral development in the United States?

As our years of education correspond to the time our brain takes to fully develop, it shapes a person’s perspective from a young age to their college lives in areas from academic development to social life. Moral and ethical development is no exception, as their connection to academic and social life develop a person’s moral standpoint throughout their life, greatly influencing their views on morality are greatly influenced by their education. We conducted a survey to gauge the extent of the effect that someone’s level of education had on their moral stance, while also taking factors such as economic status and gender identity into account. These were variables that were not considered in Kohlberg’s research and thus proved to be drawbacks. Our results reinforced certain aspects of Kohlberg’s theory of Moral Development as well as presented new findings to the connection of age/academic level to an individual’s moral choices.