Paul Tough -"How Children Succeed"

 

"[...] Habit and character are essentially the same thing. [...] It's not like some kids are good and some kids are bad. Some kids have good habits and some kids have bad habits. Kids understand it when you put it that way, because they know that habits might be hard to change, but they're not impossible to change. William James says our nervous systems are like a sheet of paper. You fold it over and over and over again, and pretty soon it has a crease. And I think that's what you at KIPP are doing. When your students leave KIP, you want to make sure they have the kind of creases that will lead them to success later on."