“Passions aren’t ‘found,’ they’re developed.” That’s what Carol Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford argue in a recent Atlantic article by Olga Khazan. We’ve been slow to repost this article because we wanted to make sure we responded to it appropriately. And…
read moreThis afternoon I came across a two-year-old article on “Perfect, Freaky Olympic Bodies.“ One thing that most so-called education experts continue to ignore when they talk about how ‘every child is a genius,’ or ‘every child can succeed (in a simplistic, standardized…
read moreIt is easy for parents to get caught up in the belief that it is their responsibility to identify a pathway for their child to proceed down en route to a successful life, and then direct them down that pathway. Likewise for…
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