Development Sequences

There are three stages in life (According to A Brief History of Everything by Ken Willber).

Preconventional — Stage when a person is not yet socialized into any sort of moral system.

Conventional — Stage when a person learns a general moral scheme that represents the basic values of the society.

Postconventional — Stage when the individual comes to reflect on his or her society and gains some modest distance from it and a capacity to criticize it or reform it.

This is a general scheme that humans have been following from the beginning.

Question: Do people follow this stages by its order?

In many cases, people jump to the third stage, postconventional from the first stage, preconventional. Without learning a general moral scheme, the basic values of the society, people tend to criticize its society with none sense reasons and useless results. Learning general moral scheme and basic human value is necessary. Society would develop when the cultivated individuals criticize with meaningful reasons and reform with good results that benefit the society.