There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Daniel GolemanRead
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
Interpretation
Teachers should feel at ease discussing emotions with students.
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence in education. Daniel Goleman suggests that teachers who can openly talk about feelings create a supportive and understanding environment, which can enhance learning and foster stronger relationships between educators and students.
In practice
During a teacher training session focused on emotional intelligence.
There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.
Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
Emotions are contagious. We've all known it experientially. You know after you have a really fun coffee with a friend, you feel good. When you have a rude clerk in a store, you walk away feeling bad.
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.
Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
We need to get to kids who have no idea what we do. We need to open the doors wide and let them in. There are many undiscovered voices out there - voices that, against all odds, can rise up and enrich this culture and perhaps change the very nature of the marketplace for the better.
I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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