It’s hard to see how training students to concentrate on their own fear of inadequacy and desire to beat their neighbour is likely to open paths out of the death spiral of climate change and capitalism.
It’s hard to see how training students to concentrate on their own fear of inadequacy and desire to beat their neighbour is likely to open paths out of the death spiral of climate change and capitalism
I’ve never been greatly invested in my own kids’ grades. It’s nice for them to do well, handy if they need a certain number or letter to fulfil a particular ambition, but in exam season I remind them: it’s convenient to get a high grade and sometimes inconvenient to get a low one, but that’s all. You will not be a better person for a higher number, nor a lesser person for a lower one.
Not at all high achievers have fragile egos, but a fragile ego can drive achievement. Worse than that, high achievement affirms the fragility of the ego because as long as you go on getting top grades you can go on believing that an imperfect grade would make you an unlovable person. The hypothesis is never tested, and the longer it stands, the more like truth it appears to be.
Most of us went into teaching for love of the subject and the students, for the real and sustaining joy of giving people the tools to change their minds and understand more of the world
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