Let's get back to teaching our children fairness rather than overemphasizing empathy before it's too late.
are obsessed with teaching students empathy. For just one example, a huge focus of social and emotional learning is on teaching empathy. CASEL, one of the leaders in developing SEL curricula for schools,one of SEL’s core purposes is to help children “feel and show empathy for others.
Because of its narrow focus, empathy essentially spikes our tribalism. It makes us care more about our in-group at the expense of being able to care about our out-group. That’s why, as Bloom writes, it “push us in the direction of parochialism and racism.” Despite the fact that the jokes were hardly evidence of ill intent , school administrators publicly accused her of racist conduct. Her fellow students refused to speak with her, and friends cut her out of their lives.
So if empathy doesn’t work, what should we teach instead? Let’s start with fairness and the golden rule. While “fairness” means different things to different people, I have in mind the Merriam-WebsterThese values encourage students to stand up for what is right regardless of whether or not they know the person who was wronged and are therefore more universal than empathy.
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