[quote]Efforts to give children self-esteem might actually be making children feel entitled. Giving a child an award for being special instead of doing something special may be discouraging children from doing anything risky. John Stossel investigates.[/quote]
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What a crock a shit. I'm doing great because I don't let people hold me down. My mentality is "You slow me down, I'll leave you behind."
Also I expected something like this
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Those eyebrows, oh god.
I don't even feel good about success.
BRB going to kill myself. :(
If I felt good about failure, I'd feel fucking brilliant all the time.
I never thought their a school that teaches kids how to be yourself and never let the other intimidate you.
God my teachers act like this. It's so annoying.
They like over compliment everything you do. It's horrible.
Look at it this way:
[u]Kids who think failure is OK[/u]:
[i]Happier, more confident, take risks[/i]
[i]No moral issue with sloppy work or complete failure[/i]
[u]Kids raised like [i]normal[/i] kids[/u]:
[i]More stress, pressured to work harder, fear of failure/risks, less confident [/i]
[i]Inspired to be the best that they can be, harder working[/i]
What they should be teaching these kids is that hard work is it's own reward. Life won't just hand itself to you on a fucking silver platter. Confidence is earned through success, failure will only lead to an even lazier and unhappier future generation of kids set up for disappointment. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that making our kids smarter should take a higher priority over their happiness.
A fear of failure leads to a drive for success. Success brings happiness, thus bringing the respect of peers and confidence. Failure should be what we fear, not what we aim for.
Too bad schools don't teach people how to think.
wow that's really dumb
At one of the schools I went to the general consensus was that our brains were useless pieces of shit and we all were wasting our parents' money. That school is one of the best in the country.
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I find myself a lot more motivated to do well when someone says I can't. I try to prove them wrong.
Schools need to be encouraging creativity instead of only intelligence. Creativity breeds innovation, and while innovation breeds mistakes, we learn from our mistakes which makes us intelligent.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;20467612]Schools need to be encouraging creativity instead of only intelligence. Creativity breeds innovation, and while innovation breeds mistakes, we learn from our mistakes which makes us intelligent.[/QUOTE]
School curriculums need to be standardised in order to give everyone a meritocratic education which isn't going to happen anyway due to labelling theory.
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