Non-scientific, unmotivated. Difficult. Children receive many labels during their schooling and few glances stop to understand what emotion is behind each difficult student.
It is curious to know how in scenarios such as business or politics, emotional intelligence is already valued as essential and structuring for any professional, while educational institutions, deficient in this regard, do not regard emotional intelligence as an ability to exploit.
- Education should give us skills to care for us.
- And it’s no use training children capable of science or literature if we don’t teach them first what self-esteem.
- Respect.
- And empathy are.
The weight of cognitive skills remains fundamental to the academic system, in turn, emotions are considered this?Taboo? That it is better to limit yourself to the private sphere, to the loneliness of each child in his delicate attempt to know himself in an increasingly. complex world.
Today’s children and adolescents are skilled strategists in new technologies. Emoticons in their text messages are often their only approach to the world of emotions, but when they move away from mobile devices, they can’t handle or prevent situations like bullying.
Psychologist and researcher Begoa Ibarrola explains that in institutes where emotional intelligence has been integrated into classrooms and school curriculums, bullying has disappeared and academic performance has improved considerably, that gives us hope, no doubt.
Education aims to train people who will change the world of tomorrow: therefore, we must train people who are happy, able to enjoy, teachers in respect and bright in hope.
If we now wonder why we do not take the step towards this essential transformation of our education, we will have to reflect for a few minutes on these aspects:
In addition, any change at the institutional level must be considered as a required time, a clean social consciousness is necessary, because investing in emotions means investing in coexistence, learning to be more capable in human relationships, respect and in this change of orientation. , where the need to educate perfect children to train happy people is left out.
In a society full of changes like ours and with a very strong professional competence, it is of little use to train equal students, specialists in the same subjects, we must prioritize human value, assess the natural skills of the child so that only he discovers the best and offers it to the world to be “unique”.
One thing to keep in mind is that we often put the weight of a child’s education in academic institutions, this is a bad approach: we are all educators, with the family being this essential scenario that we must value very much.
The scope of neuroscience makes it very clear: the emotional and facilitating context in which a child grows up in his early years will largely determine his later development and even his personality.
The school will be a clear example for the child of this world who will have to face tomorrow, the relationships with your peers and the figure of authority (teachers and teachers) will allow you to acquire important new skills.
To educate is to learn to make your mark on the hearts of children.