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What A Child Needs to Succeed


Richard H. Finan, State Senator from Ohio

In 1986, a group of researchers published a study of Japanese mothers and mothers in Minneapolis. The mothers were asked to rank the most important things that a child needs to succeed academically. The answers tell a lot about the difference in our two cultures today.

The mothers in Minneapolis chose "ability." The mothers in Japan said "effort."