If you have time to read this blog I have a favor. Instead of reading this blog click the article "What If The Secret To Success Is Failure" in the New York Times Magazine, September 18, 2011 and read that.
If you're still reading this blog then I'll give you a brief overview of the article to whet your appetite.
The article is about how two schools (Riverdale, an elite NYC private school and the KIPP charter schools) implemented programs to teach character as well as the normal subjects. The leaders of these schools became interested in character after coming across the findings of Dr. Martin Seligman, the author of "Learned Optimism" and "Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification", where Seligman points out that success is a factor of much more than classroom learning. One of the schools went so far as to grade character and share those grades with parents.
It's worth the read.
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