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http://www.edutopia.org/lucas-goleman-social-emotional-learning Educating Hearts and Minds: An Interview with George Lucas
George Lucas and Daniel Goleman discuss the many ways that social and emotional learning enhance the education process.

This article was also published in Edutopia Magazine, November 2007

In other words, SEL puts into the classroom a live situation kids can extract these lessons from.
Well, also, one of the problems of the modern age is the remoteness from which people deal with other people. And it's true on the Internet and on computers, but it's also true on talk shows and on radio where bad manners aren't called out. We don't say, "Hey, you can't say that; that's hurting someone's feelings." Some of these talk show hosts believe that if they're talking to thousands of people, millions of people, and they're hurting a few people's feelings, so what?
You can have that rationale, but when you get down to five people and you're modeling that behavior from these other situations, someone has to say, "Hey, wait a minute. If someone said that to you, how would you feel?"
And that's a lesson in empathy. A very valuable one.
These people, on some talk shows, trash people for fun; but in the end, when you're the one being trashed, it isn't much fun. You can make the decision to trash someone, but no one is going to want to work with you, nobody's going to respect you, nobody's going to pay attention to you. If you are working on a team, what does it do to your team? This is something you can learn in physical education; sports teams are all about this sort of thing. But it's time to bring it out of the gym and put it into the classroom.