Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
To be clear, I'm not suggesting that those soft skills aren't important, and that students shouldn't learn them. Far from it. Just that learned, inwardly directed perfectionism should be part of the risk-benefit analysis here.

Yes. Teaching the whole kid-- including attitudes toward failure and learning and other people's faults and one's own faults and disagreement-- that's all part of a good education. Each child should be given opportunities to do the learning they need to do in all these ways.

What stuns me is that at the moment our public school appears to be doing this job quite well for my kids. The full package.

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