In short, mentorship produces intellectual and ethical growth.
As discussed in a previous post, intellectual and ethical growth occurs in stages, categorized by the late Harvard educational psychologist William G. Perry as dualism, multiplicity and relativism.
Harry Potter, Sawyer argues, neither faces a "moral struggle" nor undergoes any ethical growth, and is thus "no guide in circumstances in which right and wrong are anything less than black and white".
These rather obscure formulations were taken up also by the English idealists, most notably by T.H. Green (1941 [1895]), who emphasized the contribution that ownership makes to ethical development, to the growth of the will and a sense of responsibility.
Even beyond the strictly legal purport of Muhammad's example, the imitation of the Prophet has functioned as an important vehicle of ethical and spiritual growth for many Muslims across the centuries.
Nothing, of course, turns out as it should or as we quite expect, and there is a sudden, spectacularly handled outburst of violence worthy of Sam Peckinpah, whose first important movie, Ride the High Country, dealt with similar themes of coming of age, moral growth, ethical tutelage and a climactic confrontation between men of honour and representatives of brute force.
In the U.S. News worldview of college quality, it matters not a bit what students actually learn on campus, or how a college actually contributes to the intellectual, ethical and personal growth of students while on campus, or how that institution contributes to the public good.
Sarojini et al. ([ 2011]) consider the specific issue of the globalization of 'birth markets' and the equity and ethical implications of growth of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in India [ 24].
The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) has been mapping the size and growth of ethical and responsible investors for the past 15 years, and for most of that time demand for ethical investments has remained stubbornly low at about 1.5% of all investments.
In 2008, ethical leaders outperformed the growth of the S&P 500 by 40%.
Some of her favorite topics include growth mindsets, ethical design, and communication.
