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In article <391689$r6p@crchh518.bnr.ca> tomg@bnr.ca (Tom Gargulak) writes:
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>Of course its earned.  If the *opportunity* is there.
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>Who do you think is more successful?
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>1) A guy from a poor, low-educated family who made it through college.
>2) Ex-President George Bush's son. 	

The key is who managed to get the education.  Education is a much stronger
indicator of success than is the social background, race, etc.  Also, self
esteem must be measured against some reality.  In today's public school
system, self esteem is being pushed at the expense of true learning,
including the learning of competition.  So a student graduates from high
school with high self esteem but little education.  They hit the real world,
which cares about what you can do rather than how you feel, and they find 
themselves struggling just to get along.  I believe it is true that self
esteem is an indicator of potential for lawlessness.  However, as with the
rest of life, if you give someone self esteem, it is worthless.  You must
convence him that he can do it and then provide only the means with which
he can do it himself.

   Dick Smith