The Effect of Education and Parenting on Quashing Talent
A large body of literature has long since posited that strengths orientation and positive psychology should begin early in a child’s life as a tenet of the official education system (e.g., White & Waters 2015; Seligman et al. 2009; Peterson 2006). To help you appreciate the important role schools have to play in developing the mindsets we carry around with us for years or even decades afterward, I will present a comparison of two schools I know rather well. Many roads lead to Rome, of course, and the following is not necessarily a presentation of the right way or the wrong way to educate children. There are myriad options for head teachers with regard ...
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