When Success Leads to Failure: The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning. by Jessica Lahey
August 11, 2015
The Atlantic
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She is too worried about Marianna’s future achievements to allow her daughter to work through the obstacles in her path. She wants to give Marianna everything and yet she forgets that her best childhood experiences likely arose from the thrill of facing challenge, from the moments she lost herself in the trying and, when she failed, trying again to accomplish something all on her own, simply for the adventure and pleasure inherent in learning something new....
