Summary Of How Children Succeed By Paul Tough

Paul Tough is the author of How Children Succeed, a book that investigates a major controversial question in education, how do students in the 21st century succeed? While some educators might argue that students succeed by memorizing vocabulary, practicing mathematical equations and doing hours of homework in order to ace tests, Paul Tough argues that children actually succeed by learning non-cognitive skills that they will use throughout their academic career and long after it. These are skills such as motivation, determination, persistence, problem solving and responsibility. The book also studies the idea of failure, and that students are more likely to succeed if they know how to overcome their failure and learn from their mistakes in order