Website review: Dinesh DSouza
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sexualizingsanta discovered 3 months ago- From the page: "Self-esteem is a democratic idea. In a hierarchical society one's self-image is determined by one's role: as patriarch, as brahmin, as elder, and so on. Aristocratic societies do not speak of self-esteem but of honor. In a democratic society, self-esteem is regarded as an entitlement. Unlike honor it doesn't have to be earned. Self-esteem in the West is largely a product of the romantic movement, which exalts feelings over reason, the subjective over the objective. Self-esteem is based on the wisdom that Polonius imparted to Laertes: to thine own self be true. We are encouraged to discover and then affirm our inner selves. But does a stronger self-esteem make students learn better? I am not so sure. I'm the product of a Jesuit education, and I know that institutions like the Jesuits and the Marines have for generations produced impressive results by first undermining the self-esteem of recruits, and then seeking to reconstruct it on a new physical, mental and spiritual foundation. A few years ago something called the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem (yes, there really is such a group) did a study. It found, to its own evident disappointment, that self-esteem does not improve academic results. Indeed one of the findings was that American students consistently have higher self-esteem but lower reading and math scores than students from other industrialized countries. What we have here is self-esteem unsubstantiated by intellectual achievement. In the last couple of years there have been several studies exploring the relationship between self-esteem and academic performance. What they find is that it is not self-esteem that produces enhanced achievement. Rather, it is achievement that produces enhanced self-esteem."
