They must prepare our students for these tests, knowing all the while that a standardized test can't measure kindness, resilience, creativity, enthusiasm, intuition, character, motivation, manners, work ethic, self-esteem, courage, compassion, effort, a sense of humor, or a love of learning--qualities that they see, and value, in our children.
The prize inspired Armstrong to draft, with the help of international organizations and individuals, a Charter of Compassion, an effort to restore the concept of compassion to public perception of the world's religions and to call for an end to tribalism and narrow-minded greed.
In the 1974 yearbook of the Encyclopedia Judaica, Rabbi Norman Lamm, a leader in Modern Orthodox Judaism, urged sympathy and treatment: "Judaism allows for no compromise in its abhorrence of sodomy, but encourages both compassion and efforts at rehabilitation".
But all too often the voices of religious extremists drown those that speak of compassion, the disciplined effort to put oneself in somebody else's shoes and 'experience with' the other.
Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts and a supporter of full federal financing, said of Mr. Bush's announcement: "Compassionate conservatism could have meant lifesaving treatments for those suffering from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease; instead it appears to be using words of compassion to mask efforts to keep a campaign promise to conservatives".
Virtually widowed for the second time, she turned her personal drama into a kind of business that required all who came near her to make an effort of compassion.
It was not because he can roll out outstanding lessons all day every day, or because he gets the best results in the school, but because of the time, effort and compassion he gives to the students.
There's a major effort by Compassion & Choices, the [right-to-die] advocacy group [supporting SB 128], to avoid the word "suicide" or "physician-assisted suicide".
He looks at the world with a strange, sullen, fixed-from-under stare, as though defying all efforts of compassion.
A woman of sterling character whose extraordinary efforts and compassion have made the world a better place.
I believe it is making itself felt on this side of the Atlantic: in the clamorous new demands to remove the 50p tax band for the very rich, for instance; or among the sneering, jeering bloggers who write for the Telegraph and the Spectator, mocking compassion and empathy, attacking efforts to make the word a kinder place.
