Our Genetic Heritage Endows Each Of Us

Well, Any Effort To Maximize Your Potential And Ability Is A Good Thing.

Educators, Long Disturbed By Schoolchildren's Lagging Scores In Math And Reading, Are Realizing There Is A Different And More Alarming Deficiency: Emotional Literacy. And While Laudable Efforts Are Being Made To Raise Academic Standards, This New And Troubling Deficiency Is Not Being Addressed In The Standard School Curriculum. As One Brooklyn Teacher Put It, The Present Emphasis In Schools Suggests That "we Care More About How Well Schoolchildren Can Read And Write Than Whether They'll Be Alive Next Week."

There Is Zero Correlation Between Iq And Emotional Empathy... They're Controlled By Different Parts Of The Brain.

Threats To Our Standing In The Eyes Of Others Are Remarkably Potent Biologically, Almost As Powerful As Those To Our Very Survival.

Reducing The Economic Gap May Be Impossible Without Also Addressing The Gap In Empathy.