"Grit" is making a big comeback, particularly among American secular conservatives interested in education reform. In other words, not religious conservatives angling for less science, more God, but the "stop coddling our children with this self esteem business; they should walk 50 miles in the snow" sort of conservatism. Back-to-basics rote learning stuff. "Grit" is being used as a shorthand.
I suspect it, rather than "determination," caught on because of True Grit and because it sounds old-timey, and the old-timeyness is a key element of "morally good" rather than simply useful.
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Date: 2013-09-30 03:45 pm (UTC)I suspect it, rather than "determination," caught on because of True Grit and because it sounds old-timey, and the old-timeyness is a key element of "morally good" rather than simply useful.