the book, Celebrating Strengths: Building Strengths-based Schools by Jennifer M. Fox Eades (2008 CAPP). In the intro to the book, Anthony Seldon comments: " They need to do much more to develop in their children resilience, powers of self-restraint and the habits of optimistic thinking.  Allied to this new thinking has been a far more systematic approach to the teaching of mental and physical well-being, with schools realising that they shoulder a major responsibility for developing the wholeness in each child... many others in politics, as well as in education and the media, are still highly sceptical about whether 'well-being' can or should be taught to the young." Then he asks the important question, "If it (well-being) is not taught at schools, and is not adequately covered at home, when will it be?" An important part of well-being can be found in the new book Curious? by Todd Kashdan (2009 Harper Collins - William Morrow). "When we remain hyperfocused on intelligence, we miss out on an important truism: The most intelligent people are not necessarily the best and brightest.  Curiosity predicts better grades and achievement test scores in school, and curiosity in the classroom is a better predictor of students' willingness to transfer knowledge into long-term interests and careers... We need to ask whether the goals of teaching children is for them to do well on tests and get into the best colleges or for them to be successful. If it is the latter, the cultural obsession with intelligence needs