Letter to the Editors of the Washington Post by Herbert Gross

Click Here to Read: ‘Goldilocks’: Balancing learning and self-esteem, Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post by Herbert Gross on January 21, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The article Herbert Gross was respondidng to:  In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise By Michael Alison Chandler in the Washington Post on  January 15, 2012.

 

The Idea of Happiness


Click Here to Read:  The Idea of Happiness By Ashis Nandy in the Economic and Political Weekly on January 14, 2012.

Jonathan House sends us this thoughtful discourse on the Happiness Industry, written by Ashis Nandy, a social theorist. He is skeptical about our “clenched teeth pursuit of happiness.” His conclusion hews closer to Freud’s more somber (or sober) view of life. Nandy starts with Continue reading The Idea of Happiness