1. Dweck’s main focus is to develop learning in students. Her main concepts include -fixed and growth mindsets. A fixed mindset is when a student may see a challenge as a terrifying, or impossible obstacle. A growth mindset is where students will see these challenges as an opportunity to grow and learn from them.
  2. Lukianoff and Haidt wrote an article that is introducing the idea that colleges are setting up students for failure. They believe that canceling certain words from the schools or protecting students from the real world is only going to shelter them and hurt them in the long-run.
  3. There are similarities in their thinking; students need to be taught how to think for themselves, rather than becoming a robot.
  4. Lukianoff and Haidt referred to Socrates when thinking about learning “Don’t teach students what to think; teach them how to think.” They believe that students are not being taught how to think critically and question everything. They need to be able to come up with their own ideas and responses to certain things. Dweck has a very similar response to this type of thing where she says “praising the process that kids engage in, their effort, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance, their improvement.” She believes this will help students think more critically because they aren’t as focused on getting the grade, but on how they got that answer to get the grade.