“By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.” WellsHardSchoolLevelsMistakeRiskEmotionalDutyIntellectualAvailableHeavyExposingBest EducationExposing YourselfSchool Of Hard Knocks Author:Gifford Pinchot
“The physical lot of surviving workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality.” ChildrenGovernmentSchoolSocialInterestingSecurityTelevisionEmotionalPersonalityIntellectualWorkersRadioVariousUnemploymentSocial SecurityAssuredSurvivingStimulusSustainingDiversionSchool EducationHealth Services Book:The Pentagon of Power Source: The Pentagon of Power
“You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family -- children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses -- you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingLooksChildrenDifferentReasonTodaySchoolCoursesParentRealizingEnvironmentHappenedInfluenceChildhoodEmotionalObviousYour ChildrenIdenticalPsychiatristUpbringingNeurosisDifferent Experiences Author:Louis Auchincloss
“Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.” PeopleChildrenTwoHelpingSchoolIndividualCommunityResponsibilityTeacherEmotionalInvolvedMajorsTasksMissionsActiveTraditionalMentorLiteracyParticipantsMajor ChangeDaunting TasksEmotional Literacy Author:Daniel Goleman
“You know how theres always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? Im not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.” KnowsWellsSchoolGirlKnow HowCryEmotionalDramaHatsThat Girl Author:Condola Rashad
“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.” PeopleChildrenKidsSchoolGamesToo MuchEmotionalNormalEmpathyBaseballMental HealthIncrediblesAutismSensoryAutisticStimulationBaseball GamesOverloadCafeteriaMeltdownsInformation OverloadLack Of EmpathyNo EmpathySchool Cafeteria Author:Temple Grandin