Sublime

Paul Tough, in his recent book How Children Succeed, draws on Dweck’s work and others’ to make the case that our success is less dependent on IQ than on grit, curiosity, and persistence.

There is no more effective way to prepare children for lives animated by love than to provide them with a loving childhood.

But evolution didn’t just lengthen childhood to make learning possible. It also installed three strong motivations to do things that make learning easy and likely: motivations for free play, attunement, and social learning. In

In his compelling book on education, How Children Succeed, Paul Tough combined first-hand reporting from American schools with evidence from academic research to argue that we have overestimated the extent to which successful learning depends on intelligence, and underestimated the importance of ‘non-cognitive traits’ – put simply, character.

We need to be able to give our full attention and energies to the new task at hand: assisting the development of a new self in the first days of life.

Most parents build dependency, great parents build capacity.

When a child plays, he learns the skills that make it possible to cope with the unexpected.

I believe that it is the teacher’s responsibility to provide a reason to learn.

We can provide for our children by safeguarding their time and opportunities for open-ended imaginative play.