Comments on: Caring in Education - An Audience with Nel Noddings http://pos-psych.com/news/john-yeager/20080511744 Positive Psychology News Daily - Daily boost of research-based happiness. Authored by University of Pennsylvania graduates of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP). Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:40:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Nicholas Hall http://pos-psych.com/news/john-yeager/20080511744#comment-23082 Nicholas Hall Thu, 15 May 2008 04:02:44 +0000 http://pos-psych.com/news/john-yeager/20080511744#comment-23082 Hi John, It's interesting for me that this article comes at this specific time. I have been reading The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, and in it they write extensively about compassion. The Dalai Lama talks at length how the cultivation of compassion is a major component, if not a bedrock, of human morality and happiness. This rang in my mind when reading your article. It seems to me that you are advocating that effective teachers must have a level of true compassion for their students, and not compassion that is too hard or too soft. Having this level of respect and feeling for the students with which we instruct and help to learn and mature must be present if we are to properly "confirm" their education and maturity. It's fascinating to me how the need for the understanding of the deep underlying truth of the human experience shows up wherever we look. Would you agree? Cheers, Nick Hi John,
It’s interesting for me that this article comes at this specific time. I have been reading The Art of Happiness by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, and in it they write extensively about compassion. The Dalai Lama talks at length how the cultivation of compassion is a major component, if not a bedrock, of human morality and happiness. This rang in my mind when reading your article. It seems to me that you are advocating that effective teachers must have a level of true compassion for their students, and not compassion that is too hard or too soft. Having this level of respect and feeling for the students with which we instruct and help to learn and mature must be present if we are to properly “confirm” their education and maturity. It’s fascinating to me how the need for the understanding of the deep underlying truth of the human experience shows up wherever we look. Would you agree?
Cheers,
Nick

]]> By: Senia http://pos-psych.com/news/john-yeager/20080511744#comment-23077 Senia Thu, 15 May 2008 03:31:28 +0000 http://pos-psych.com/news/john-yeager/20080511744#comment-23077 What a beautiful article. Especially that part about confirmation. It sounds like ACR. Also, the distinction between natural and ethical... sounds similar to a distinction between a process goal and an end goal... I'm not sure if this analogy holds - it just seems like a similar dynamic. Neat. What a beautiful article.
Especially that part about confirmation.
It sounds like ACR.

Also, the distinction between natural and ethical… sounds similar to a distinction between a process goal and an end goal… I’m not sure if this analogy holds - it just seems like a similar dynamic.

Neat.

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