This seating arrangement unwittingly encourages empathy because students have to try to understand another student’s issues in order to help explain how to solve them. It is also a very different set of skills to have to explain something to another person rather than just remember it individually. Interestingly, many studies show that teaching others actually enhances individual learning and memory retention much more than rote memorization.
by Jessica Alexander
The same goes for empathy.Psychologists, myself included, have argued that people choose when and with whom to empathize; for instance, we take the time to consider one person’s suffering while turning away from another’s.It’s true th…
Dr. Jennifer Hartstein examines recent, amazing displays of kindness by a bus driver in Canada and an NYPD officer, and discusses whether such selflessness is a matter of genes or if it can be learned.See it on Scoop.it, via Empathy and Compassion
Compassionate conservatism always struck me as a philosophical surrender to liberal assumptions about the role of the government in our lives. A hallmark of Great Society liberalism is the idea that an individual’s worth as a human being is correlated …
What makes a social business different. Could empathy be the key? And how do you get hard-charging corporate execs to put customers and employees first? Is Empathy The Secret Ingredient To A Social Business?Search for branded websites that you lo…
