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Too Much Self-Esteem Can Be Bad for Your Child
Andrew Lam, New America Media. July 10, 2007.
American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school.