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Education > Educational Philosophy Is it better for schools to be rigorous or nurturing?

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To be perfectly frank, I find this to be a joke of a debate. It is the art of nurturing which is the hallmark of a good education. And it is that fine line of guiding a young mind to be able to reach its potential, utilizing the proper and needed amount of discipline whilst not ever threatening their enthusiasm for learning nor clobbering their individual strengths which we ask our schools to walk. This is no easy job. For those who perhaps believe "nurturing" to be some sort of babyish and weak cop-out, I am afraid they are very mistaken.

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