ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the emotional and moral development of students, including such elements as values and aspirations, personal self-discovery, psychological well-being, human sympathy, morality, religious interest, and refinement of taste, manner, and conduct. There is some evidence of change in the broad general values and aspirations of students during the college years. The All-port-Vernon study of values purports to measure changes in the relative importance of six values: theoretical; economic; esthetic; social; political; and religious. There is an abundance of evidence about personal self-discovery during college and related changes in values, attitudes, and life choices. The chapter explores interests and values evolve, that attitudes toward the purposes of college education are modified, that the likelihood of graduate or professional education is increased, that the desired attributes of careers are changed, and that aspirations are raised. Higher education appears to have been near the vanguard in the decline of Puritan values in our society.
