Empathy and failure.
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So much of schooling is about knowledge, content, skills and intelligence. But if students don't have the appropriate emotion skill sets to handle the content we teach how can expect them to succeed. by getting students to know each other greater and find the value of similarities and differences students will begin to empathize and cross boundaries within the classroom. Just providing the space to listen. Is to teach empathy.
One aspect that was discussed that I hadn't previously thought about was that students today have never faced failure. In their case, the student at Arapahoe had come into contact with failures that he had never anticipated nor dealt with. It is important to teach that through failure your successes become sweeter.
“To perceive is to suffer.”
― Aristotle
“It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
― J.K. Rowling