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Education to Make us Human: What’s Kindness, Love, Compassion, or Beauty Got to Do With Teaching and Education?

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Kamran Mofid
07 April 2021
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Can teaching kindness at universities make education better and students happier?

Students’ Anxiety, Depression, Self-Harm, Kindness, Good Education and Happiness

Yes, it is true: “Education is what makes us fully human”

But, the fundamental question is: What kind of education will make us truly human?

This posting aims to concentrate on this timeless question and will endeavour to provide some possible answers.

Where is the life we have lost in living?

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?-T.S. Eliot

Lest We Forget

Our ‘Greatness’ consists in our ability to project ‘Goodness’ and apply our power to build Kindness and Fairness

Goodness and Kindness is the Foundation of Greatness 

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