Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 22, 1990
Transcript:
Self-esteem commissioner: Okay. One last question. You in the back. Rick: Yes, it seems to me that Mr. Hunk-ra has raised a troubling point...I notice buried in your report a statement from the professor who reviewed all the research. He says, "the associations between self-esteem and its expected consequences are mixed, insignificant or absent." In the light of that, isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't casual at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education? Commissioner: Call security. He must be from out of state. Rick: Just asking.