It is possible to teach empathy, especially if you start at a young age and also resilience. Dr. Seligman has started to work on resilience training before deployment to reduce PTSD. It is our amygdala, our reptilian brain, that reacts in a primitive mode but we can calm it and over ride it.
Oh, and I don’t believe in giving up. I would not have become an educator if I though people were incapable of learning and change.
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