Here's an interesting idea. Instead of making our education competitive with the rest of the world's by raising our standards, we send one of our "experts" overseas so he can screw them up as much as he has us:
Lessons in happiness are to be introduced for 11-year-olds in state schools to combat a huge rise in depression, self-harm and anti-social behaviour among young people.
Special behavioural techniques imported from the US will be used from September next year in an attempt to make children more resilient in the face of the pressures of 21st century living.
Professor Martin Seligman, from the University of Pennsylvania, one of the most influential psychologists of his generation, has been drafted in to train British teachers so that they can deliver classes to nearly 2,000 secondary school pupils.
Self-esteem is a feeling of deserving well-being connected to no beneficial accomplishment. Hitler had self-esteem. Churchill earned self-worth.
