Louise J. Kaplan Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: November 18, 1929 - January 9, 2012
Birthday: November 18
Death: January 9
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro, Patagonia, Kyushu, . . . Dresden--the time span between childhood and adulthood, however fleeting or prolonged, has been associated with the acquisition of virtue as it is differently defined in each society. A child may be good and morally obedient, but only in the process of arriving at womanhood or manhood does a human being become capable of virtue--that is, the qualities of mind and body that realize society's ideals.
topic: Children, Childhood, Mind, Carthage, Zambia, Patagonia, Constantinople, Sparta, Northwestern
