http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/086079.php I've seen various Blogsphere reactions to this article by Christina Hoff Summers bashing the public education system's obsession with "self-esteem" and the bizarro ways in which it is turning our little darlins into hot-house flowers through its efforts to promote... en-us http://mementomoron.blogspot.com/2005/06/another-brick-in-wall.html The Llama Butchers are weighing in on this issue again, in response to an essay by Christina Hoff Summers. Both are excellent reading.