Success

I was reading this great book about learning. It's called "The Growth of the Mind." I came across this quote in reference to how we teach, considering individual difference and motivating, developmentally appropriate lessons, as well as our measurement of a child's skills. Thought it was lovely.

"A child's success is not accurately measured by how quickly she learns, or whether her method resembles that of others, but by how well she learns when taught in a manner suited to her needs. Our school's failure to educate masses of children fully capable of learning is not the result of over emphasis on unearned self-esteem or touchy-feely frills but from reliance on a model that ignores the nature of the learning process." -Stanley Greenspan, The Growth of the Mind, p.213.