"Let us try to learn from children all they have to tell us," Anna Freud once told child psychiatrist Robert Coles, "and let us sort out only later how their ideas fit in with our own." In this excellent work, the author looks at how children come to a sense of right and wrong. Many pick up their ideals and values from parents, peers, or the media. Using material gleaned from 25 years of conversations with boys and girls, Coles examines how they view moral purpose, character, idealism, and social class.