When schools need to make cuts to save money, music is often top of the list. In the UK, funding for music in schools and the training of music teachers continues to be cut…
In today’s modern world, we exert our own powers of selection via culture: for better and for worse. If we want our children to grow up with more ‘empathic concern’, to be less disruptive and more cooperative, then maybe music should be as essential throughout the school curriculum as math and English.
by Gillian Ragsdale
Demonizing your political opponents doesn’t change anyone’s mind, but empathy can. By Doug Muder uuworld.org I came to reject those views not because I lost arguments, but because I gained experience and grew in empathy. I rem…
Our feelings of empathy, as Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has shown, arise from our “fast” thinking system. We feel the correctness of these compassionate feelings in the same way we feel the correctness of 2 + 2 = 4. Sna…
We’ve entered the age of empathy.Today, we are in the midst of another fundamental rethinking of what organizations are and for what purpose they exist. If organizations existed in the execution era to create scale and in the expertise era to pro…
The vulnerability of our children transformed human relationships, argues Dacher Keltner, and made compassion essential to our survival. This month, we feature videos of a Science of a Meaningful Life presentation by Dacher Keltner, the author o…
