“when children reach early adolescence, what motivates them most effectively isn’t licking and grooming–style care but a very different kind of attention. Perhaps what pushes middle-school students to concentrate and practice as maniacally as Spiegel’s chess players do is the… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“Most broadly, they refer to the ability to deal with confusing and unpredictable situations and information. One” — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“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,… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“the child of a supermom who gets lots of extra tutoring and one-on-one support is going to do way better than an average well-loved… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“the best way for a young person to build character is for him to attempt something where there is a real and serious possibility… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“The idea of building grit and building self-control is that you get that through failure,” Randolph told me. “And in most highly academic environments… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“Tools of the Mind, by contrast, doesn’t focus much on reading and math abilities. Instead, all of its interventions are intended to help children… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
Optimists, by contrast, look for specific, limited, short-term explanations for bad events, and as a result, in the face of a setback, they’re more… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything. — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“a passionate commitment to a single mission and an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission. She decided she needed to name this quality, and… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“children were no longer receiving enough cognitive stimulation in the first three years of life, in part because of the increasing number of single-parent… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“We “activate a physiological system that has evolved for responding to acute physical emergencies,” Sapolsky writes, “but we turn it on for months on… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
