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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Schools Matter: Gritty and Grateful: Manufacturing Morality and Engineering Character, Pt. 1

Schools Matter: Gritty and Grateful: Manufacturing Morality and Engineering Character, Pt. 1:

Gritty and Grateful: Manufacturing Morality and Engineering Character, Pt. 1

KIPP teachers believe their job is to teach 49 percent academics and 51 percent character. --Mike Feinberg
Dr. Martin Seligman and his fellow psychological engineers are on a campaign to save the world by making it "happy," or at least to make sure that those who are not "happy" attain a level of "character" so as not to intrude on the well-deserved happiness of those who already have attained "authentic happiness."

Seligman has consulted the sages from Aristotle to the Zuni to come up a list of 24 common traits found among human civilizations, past and present, that would seem to constitute qualities that represent the individual and