Posted by David Sherman on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 21:02:10 :
In Reply to: Re: Negative on an experienced socialist... posted by Doinco on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 16:34:35 :
I think we lost "pride of accomplishment" when we started teaching "self esteem" in school. Nowadays the kids feel really good about themselves even if they can't do anything useful. There's nothing wrong with self esteem, but it should come from taking on a hard task, working at it and doing it well, and then feeling good about it, not from having a bunch of grown-ups with degrees in education and psychology tell you how wonderful you are simply because you breathe air and eat food.