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- Megan is a 27 year old woman from Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Do NOT bother e-mailing me soliciting me for sex, a relationship, "pics", and so forth. Waste of your time, 'cause I'll ignore it, and if it's offensive enough, forward it to the SU admins. I'm here to stumble upon interesting, intelligent and/or amusing websites. If your favorites consists of porn, good for you, but I'm not interested - and I won't be interesting to you. Unless you want to read every single page of the History of the Kings of Britain. Which I doubt you do. And even if you do, still, no.
For those that fall under the category of the once-a-month emailer, 'helpfully' informing me this "About Me" is bound to attract the solicitation by trolling creeps to an even greater extent - thanks and all, but hear that? That's the sound of wrong. Having to delete 10 sexually explicit emails a day has gone down to..... your 1 email a month. Gee, I'd say it worked.
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Dinesh DSouza
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May 6, 6:28pm
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•http://www.dineshdsouza.com/articles/...
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From the page: "Self-esteem is a democratic idea. In a hierarchical society one's self-image is determined by one's role: as patriarch, as brahmin, as elder, and so on. Aristocratic societies do not speak of self-esteem but of honor.
In a democratic society, self-esteem is regarded as an entitlement. Unlike honor it doesn't have to be earned. Self-esteem in the West is largely a product of the romantic movement, which exalts feelings over reason, the subjective over the objective. Self-esteem is based on the wisdom that Polonius imparted to Laertes: to thine own self be true. We are encouraged to discover and then affirm our inner selves.
But does a stronger self-esteem make students learn better? I am not so sure. I'm the product of a Jesuit education, and I know that institutions like the Jesuits and the Marines have for generations produced impressive results by first undermining the self-esteem of recruits, and then seeking to reconstruct it on a new physical, mental and spiritual foundation.
A few years ago something called the California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem (yes, there really is such a group) did a study. It found, to its own evident disappointment, that self-esteem does not improve academic results. Indeed one of the findings was that American students consistently have higher self-esteem but lower reading and math scores than students from other industrialized countries. What we have here is self-esteem unsubstantiated by intellectual achievement.
In the last couple of years there have been several studies exploring the relationship between self-esteem and academic performance. What they find is that it is not self-esteem that produces enhanced achievement. Rather, it is achievement that produces enhanced self-esteem."
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