Word: esteem
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...guests, the better. Now, count how many of the audience members blame the guests' problems on low selfesteem. I challenge you to find a show in which no one blames low selfesteem. You won't. It seems, if we believe talk show audiences, that raising one's self-esteem will cure all problems...
...also seems this way if we listen to many of today's educators. The latest fashion in the search for the cause of our nation's educational problems is low self-esteem. Many people are under the impression that the poor performance of American students is due primarily to their low self-esteem. While self-esteem is important, the combination of faulty reasoning, poor teaching and ideology involved in studying self-esteem make it a dangerous preoccupation for the educational establishment...
...study by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) examined by Christina Hoff Sommers in her book, Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women, found that during the adolescent years, there was a considerable gap between the self-esteem of girls and boys, and that girls' selfesteem fell drastically during those years. To many advocates, this is a sign that the educational system is failing girls. They point to the fact that girls score lower in math and science than boys as evidence...
Many have even extrapolated this result and gone so far as to say that schools must place a large focus on bolstering all students' self-esteem, in order that they can desire to perform...
...titles in the store's book section illustrate that change. Hildegard von Bingen rubs shoulders with feminist interpretations of the Scriptures, and "Preaching for Black Self-Esteem" stands next to Catholic catechisms in a half a dozen languages...