After seeing the Calais migrant camp, it was safe to say modern-day Britain is entirely bereft of empathy and that doesn't differentiate Britain from anywhere else in the world in which heartlessness has been contrived to be an art form ... but Britain is doing something about it.
A teacher who was shocked by the lack of caring at one of Britain's upper class schools decided, well, this just isn't good enough and the teacher set out a curriculum for teaching empathy to the students. (RT: UK private school to offer £20k-a-year pupils ‘empathy lessons’)
The Head of one of Britain’s most prestigious high schools has noticed such an increase in isolation, apathy, and indifference towards the suffering of others in his students that he will introduce empathy lessons as early as next year.
Andrew Halls, the headmaster of the exclusive King's College School in Wimbledon, which costs a whopping £20,400 ($25,000) a year, has decided to take a more proactive approach to help combat what he sees as a growing disconnect between learners at his school and the world around them.
- RT
Note: as part of Halls' upgrade to the curriculum, he may wish to review the fact "disconnect" is not a noun and the proper word to use in that circumstance is disconnection. Imitating guttural corporate American slang is no way to go through life, Johnny Appleseed.
- generic picture of a school in case you did not go to one. Unknown if this is King's College School.
Guy Fawkes: that looks like one of the schools for the upper class where they have taught young British men how to run one of the world's greatest empires into the ground to leave it no more than a gasping relic of its once-great self.
That it is, Comrade Fawkes. This probably isn't one of the ancient English schools, tho, since those trees aren't even twenty years old.
Perhaps you have had concerns about newer generations being decreasingly empathic toward anyone but themselves and it's real.
When speaking with the Times, he describes his perception that, as time goes on, students "become locked in a world of incomprehension, with an increasingly two-dimensional understanding of other people, [and are] incapable of forming real relationships in the world of flesh and blood...”
While the phenomenon has been observed worldwide for years, many felt it was just a symptom of the changing times and that a balance would eventually be struck.
New research indicates, however, that adults born in the 1990s have lower empathy scores than those born 10 and 20 years earlier reports the Sunday Times.
- RT
Queen Elizabeth: how dare you criticize the lack of empathy in the British when America conducts the graduate course in lack of caring!
To be upstaged by the Japanese and even the Americans for snobbery is kind of paltry, isn't it, Queenie.
George Washington: that charge against America is slanted and unfair!
Oh really? What happened to the Peace Corps, Georgie Boy?
A teacher who was shocked by the lack of caring at one of Britain's upper class schools decided, well, this just isn't good enough and the teacher set out a curriculum for teaching empathy to the students. (RT: UK private school to offer £20k-a-year pupils ‘empathy lessons’)
The Head of one of Britain’s most prestigious high schools has noticed such an increase in isolation, apathy, and indifference towards the suffering of others in his students that he will introduce empathy lessons as early as next year.
Andrew Halls, the headmaster of the exclusive King's College School in Wimbledon, which costs a whopping £20,400 ($25,000) a year, has decided to take a more proactive approach to help combat what he sees as a growing disconnect between learners at his school and the world around them.
- RT
Note: as part of Halls' upgrade to the curriculum, he may wish to review the fact "disconnect" is not a noun and the proper word to use in that circumstance is disconnection. Imitating guttural corporate American slang is no way to go through life, Johnny Appleseed.
- generic picture of a school in case you did not go to one. Unknown if this is King's College School.
Guy Fawkes: that looks like one of the schools for the upper class where they have taught young British men how to run one of the world's greatest empires into the ground to leave it no more than a gasping relic of its once-great self.
That it is, Comrade Fawkes. This probably isn't one of the ancient English schools, tho, since those trees aren't even twenty years old.
Perhaps you have had concerns about newer generations being decreasingly empathic toward anyone but themselves and it's real.
When speaking with the Times, he describes his perception that, as time goes on, students "become locked in a world of incomprehension, with an increasingly two-dimensional understanding of other people, [and are] incapable of forming real relationships in the world of flesh and blood...”
While the phenomenon has been observed worldwide for years, many felt it was just a symptom of the changing times and that a balance would eventually be struck.
New research indicates, however, that adults born in the 1990s have lower empathy scores than those born 10 and 20 years earlier reports the Sunday Times.
- RT
Queen Elizabeth: how dare you criticize the lack of empathy in the British when America conducts the graduate course in lack of caring!
To be upstaged by the Japanese and even the Americans for snobbery is kind of paltry, isn't it, Queenie.
George Washington: that charge against America is slanted and unfair!
Oh really? What happened to the Peace Corps, Georgie Boy?
2 comments:
Seems like the grammar fault would lie with the author of the article rather than the headmaster as it looks like it is their writing rather than a direct quote.
It would surely scare me if a headmaster would make than error.
I would disagree with the research. While my pool is very small my offspring are a far more caring and empathetic than I. I do think that the Internet has struck a major blow to empathy in general.
PS the Peace Corp is alive and well and still in over 60 countries around the world. So many people owe their clean drinking water to the Peace Corp
Excellent catch as you're right he didn't write it.
It was an unusual study and I've seen how your kids are so that makes it all the more unusual but that was their report.
Thanks on the Peace Corps as it's encouraging to know it's still working.
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