The question of learning of values in the roll of human behavior has aroused the interest of scholars of many specialities. In the context of education, the search to understand the formation of beliefs and values, the reason for aggressive, unfair, solidary and compassionated attitudes, has been constantly searched by researchers. But, is there really a crisis of values, or are the values in crisis? More than stick to this question, this study aims to understand a little more about the moral formation in its theoretical essence. Therefore, was sought in Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg's cognitive evolutionary perspective about the moral development, to highlight the points on which these have contributed to the advancement of the underst...