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The Educational, Psychological, and Philosophical Assault on Self-Esteem
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The Educational, Psychological, and Philosophical Assault on Self-Esteem

By Edwin A. Locke

Nov 20, 2006
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In 1986, the State of California funded a “Task Force on Self-Esteem and Personal and Social Responsibility” with an annual budget of $245,000. Its main backer, a California State Assemblyman, claimed that raising self-esteem would reduce crime and delinquency, decrease teen pregnancy and underachievement, lower drug abuse and crime, cut pollution, and …

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