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*belief in one's own competence.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/emotion_esteem.shtml "Self-esteem" Mental/Emotional Health at BBC Health; accessed 24 December 2007]</ref>

*belief in one's own competence.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/emotion_esteem.shtml "Self-esteem" Mental/Emotional Health at BBC Health; accessed 24 December 2007]</ref>

[[Liberal]] educators often focus more on developing self-esteem than on actually ensuring their students actually learn anything.  Liberal educators commonly adopt politically correct policies in their classrooms in order to protect the self-esteem of women, minorities, 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>[http://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, focusing more on developing self-esteem than on actually ensuring their students actually learn anything.  Liberal educators commonly adopt politically correct policies in their classrooms in order to protect the self-esteem of women, minorities, 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>[http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1024/p09s01-coop.html Education's self-esteem hoax] (Christian Science Monitor, October 24, 2002</ref>

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