Full Idea
Adolescents tend to be much more gormless about consequences than they are about ideals.
Gist of Idea
Teenagers are often quite wise about ideals, but rather stupid about consequences
Source
Rosalind Hursthouse (On Virtue Ethics [1999], Ch.2 n12)
Book Reference
Hursthouse,Rosalind: 'On Virtue Ethics' [OUP 2001], p.60
A Reaction
Very accurate, I'm afraid. But this cuts both ways. They seem to need education not in virtue, but simply in consequences.