http://www.arsmathematica.net/2007/02/16/education-through-praise/ Dedicated to the mathematical arts. Fri, 29 May 2015 09:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://www.arsmathematica.net/2007/02/16/education-through-praise/#comment-6546 Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:19:21 +0000 http://www.arsmathematica.net/archives/2007/02/16/education-through-praise/#comment-6546 […] Via Ars Mathematica I found a long article in the New York Magazine about praise and self-esteem. The two-line conclusion is that praising children’s intelligence will only hurt them by making them complacent and causing them to view failures as embarrassments, while praising their effort will make them work harder. In addition, praise needs to be specific – e.g. “It’s good that you can concentrate for so long” – or else it will be perceived as disingenuous. Draw your own conclusions about education. This entry was posted on Saturday, February 17th, 2007 at 5:19 pm and is filed under Links. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Home» […]

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