We Should Spend Less Time

School Success Is Not Predicted By A Child's Fund Of Facts Or A Precocious Ability To Read As Much As By Emotional And Social Measures; Being Self-assured And Interested: Knowing What Kind Of Behavior Is Expected And How To Rein In The Impulse To Misbehave; Being Able To Wait, To Follow Directions, And To Turn To Teachers For Help; And Expressing Needs While Getting Along With Other Children.

Empathy Represents The Foundation Skill For All The Social Competencies Important For Work.

Mindful Meditation Has Been Discovered To Foster The Ability To Inhibit Those Very Quick Emotional Impulses.

Like Secondhand Smoke, The Leakage Of Emotions Can Make A Bystander An Innocent Casualty Of Someone Else's Toxic State.

People Learn What They Want To Learn. If Learning Is Forced On Us, Even If We Master It Temporarily, It Is Soon Forgotten.