Today most experts agree it''s not either-or.It's not nature or nurture, genes or environment. It's both. Gilbert Gottlieb an eminent neuroscientist put it, not only do genes and environment cooperate as we develop, but genes require input from the environment to work properly. At the same time, scientists are learning that people have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development than they ever thought.
Parents think they can hand children permanent confidence-like a gift-praising their brains and talent. It doesn't work, and in fact has the opposite effect. We should keep away from a certain kind of praise-praise that judges their intelligence or talent. Or praise that implies we are proud of the for their intelligence or talent.
We can praise them as much as we want for the growth-oriented process-what they accomplished through practice, study, persistence, and good strategies. And we can ask them about their work in a way that admires and appreciates their efforts and choices.
Haim Ginott, came to the same conclusion "Praise should deal, not with the child's personality attributes, but with his efforts and achievements".
Constructive criticism is a feedback that helps the child to understand how to fix something.
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I know most of you can't spell your name. You don't know the alphabet, you don't know how to read. I promise you that you will. None of you has ever failed. School may have failed you. Goodbye to failure, children. Welcome to success. You will read hard books in her and understand what you read. But you must help me to help you. If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.
Great teachers set high standards for all their students, not just the ones that are already achieving.
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