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[[Liberal]] educators often disconnect self-esteem from [[achievement]] (See also: [[Achievement orientation]]), focusing more on developing self-esteem than on actually ensuring their students actually learn anything. The problem with self-esteem is that it teaches people to be proud of yourself for nothing. <ref>https://www.prageru.com/video/why-self-esteem-is-self-defeating/</ref> This results in the pursuit of [[mediocrity]]. Liberal educators commonly adopt [[politically correct]] policies in their classrooms in order to protect the self-esteem of women, minorities,<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students "Barack Obama's "African American Education Initiative" creates a new Federal bureaucracy. One of its goals will be to stop disciplinary action against black public school students who misbehave."</ref> and other groups.  However, a study conducted by the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem found that higher self-esteem doesn't correspond with higher intellectual performance.  Also, having higher self-esteem doesn't produce correct moral outcomes such as lowered teen pregnancy or reduced delinquency.<ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1024/p09s01-coop.html Education's self-esteem hoax] (Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2002)</ref>

[[Liberal]] educators often disconnect self-esteem from [[achievement]] (See also: [[Achievement orientation]]), focusing more on developing self-esteem than on actually ensuring their students actually learn anything. The problem with self-esteem is that it teaches people to be proud of yourself for nothing. <ref>https://www.prageru.com/video/why-self-esteem-is-self-defeating/</ref> This results in the pursuit of [[mediocrity]]. Liberal educators commonly adopt [[politically correct]] policies in their classrooms in order to protect the self-esteem of women, minorities,<ref>http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-asks-public-schools-to-ingore-bad-behavoir-by-black-students "Barack Obama's "African American Education Initiative" creates a new Federal bureaucracy. One of its goals will be to stop disciplinary action against black public school students who misbehave."</ref> and other groups.  However, a study conducted by the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem found that higher self-esteem doesn't correspond with higher intellectual performance.  Also, having higher self-esteem doesn't produce correct moral outcomes such as lowered teen pregnancy or reduced delinquency.<ref>[https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1024/p09s01-coop.html Education's self-esteem hoax] (Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2002)</ref>

Educators in California believed that programs designed to increase young students' self-esteem would lead to increases in academic achievement. However, they did not bother to check this assumption. [[Martin Seligman]] criticized them for this:

Educators in California believed that programs designed to increase young students' self-esteem would lead to increases in academic achievement. However, they did not bother to check this assumption. [[Martin Seligman]] criticized them for this:

*Seligman says self-esteem is a byproduct of competence, and that attempts to increase competence by buoying self-esteem are not just ineffective but even counterproductive. (Others have noted that juvenile delinquents and dropouts have higher-that-average self-esteem.)

*Seligman says self-esteem is a byproduct of competence, and that attempts to increase competence by buoying self-esteem are not just ineffective but even counterproductive. (Others have noted that juvenile delinquents and dropouts have higher-that-average self-esteem.)

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