BY PAUL C. VITZ

[A]ccomplishment in the real world affects our attitudes. A child who learns to read, who can do mathematics, who can play the piano or baseball, will have a genuine sense of accomplishment and an appropriate sense of self-esteem. Schools that fail to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, corrupt the proper understanding of self-esteem. Educators, who say don't grade them, don't label them, you have to make them feel good about themselves, cause these problems. It makes no sense for students to be full of self-esteem if they have learned nothing. Reality will soon puncture their illusions and they will have to face two disturbing facts: that they are ignorant; and that the adults responsible for teaching them have lied to them.

FULL COLUMN ON SELF-ESTEEM

TONY DIGIROLAMO - WILLIAM R COULSON INTRODUCED ME TO THE WRITINGS OF PAUL C VITZ AND I HAVEN'T FOUND ANYONE WHO DESCRIBES BETTER THE DANGERS OF THIS WORLD ... IN FACT WE HAVE BEEN ON THE WRONG PATH AND TEACHING OUR CHILDREN IN A SHAMEFUL, UNBIBLICAL MANNER.


INDEED, “THE ADULTS RESPONSIBLE FOR TEACHING THEM HAVE LIED TO THEM.”