Empathy & Compassion

Teaching Empathy to the ‘Me’ Generation

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Capital University’s non-credit Empathy Experiment immerses students in the plight of the working poor to promote understanding.

 

The banner on the side of the Capital University music conservatory has an outline of a sneaker and asks, “They walked a mile in someone else’s shoes. How much did they learn?”

 

Inside the hall in Columbus, Ohio, a few hundred people wait to find out. They are here this evening late in April for the concluding event of the Empathy Experiment — an experiment not in an empirical sense, but in teaching empathy.

 

By Eric Leake 

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