Some people finally appear to be getting a clue!

From USA Today
The article reaches the conclusion that fake praise is damaging rather than beneficial. Apparently all that fake esteem building junk makes really confident wusses:

She also has noticed that the undergraduates she teaches tend to have an inflated sense of self.

"When you correct writing, they'll say, 'It's just your opinion,' which is infuriating. Bad grammar and spelling and sentences being wrong is not my opinion, it's just bad writing," she says.

So when the criticism flows, some college students are increasingly seeking counseling.

Of course anyone with an ounce of sense has known this since the education establishment morons started pushing this crud in the 80s. Glad it only took trashing one generation for them to finally catch on.

MSD