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Robert Coles — The Inner Lives of Children

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Relationship Between Politics and Morality

You've done a great deal of research in writing, not just on the spiritual life of children, but the moral life of children and the political life of children. What do you think america stands for? Because i want to find out what it means to children to feel american and to speak as they feel an american should speak. And coming up with being an american as they talk means being a good person verses a bad person. So so the political life begins too, connect, in its own way, with the religious and moral of those people who are living in a certain nation. Those are words i use which describe an aspect of human experience. But they they merge.

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