William Damon Born : 1944 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by 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 mental-health self kids 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 priorities educational attitude 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 self education kids