For decades now, educators have been unable to understand that self-esteem is not instilled through grade-inflation and deluging children in exuberant praise for mediocre performance. Well, the results are in: our children, on the whole, suffer from delusional over-confidence, the consequences of which will no doubt make themselves known as time marches on.
Read about the study here.
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