Why Character Skills are Crucial in Early Years Education
Posted on 05/24/2011 @ 10:49 AM
Here's a great article from Madeleine Bunting at guardian.co.uk on why character needs to be at the heart of education.
James Heckman, economics professor and Nobel prize winner, and adviser to President Barack Obama, identifies character skills that he says are crucial in early years, including openness, consciousness, extroversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
"Not only do children from better off homes arrive at school with much better cognitive skills on average than from poorer homes, but they have also often benefited from the nurturing of 'soft skills', which lay the crucial foundation for success in life."
Read the full article.
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