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A response to  Should Schools Teach Personality? The push to discipline, while seeming 'good for kids' is questionable for several reasons: Why not teach openness to ideas, another quality shown correlated with academic performance. Conscientiousness is a slightly more conservative quality, while openness is a liberal quality (it is the stronger correlate of political viewpoint), and this just seems to push the same negative conservative agenda. The blame for failure is simply pushed further on to students, without any awareness about larger societal issues and/or social issues impacting one's ability at discipline. Teaching personality might have secondary negative effects As to the last point, I have read of a study showing an inverse correlation between conscientiousness and fluid intelligence, and an increase in g with some dimensions of intelligence, although it was not verified in a follow-up study: Original: What Facets of Openness and Conscientiousnes