Tag: Paul Tough

FROM UNDER OUR BIG TREE: Week 28

“What matters most in a child’s development, they say, is not how much information we can stuff into her brain in the first few years. What matters, instead, is whether we are able to help her develop a very different set of qualities, a list that includes persistence, self-control, curiosity, …

TKG KNOW: School of Hard Knocks // ‘How Children Succeed,’ by Paul Tough

“Character is created by encountering and overcoming failure.” By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL Published: August 23, 2012 in The New York Times Most readers of The New York Times probably subscribe to what Paul Tough calls “the cognitive hypothesis”: the belief “that success today depends primarily on cognitive skills — the kind …