After three divorces, I've come to learn the necessity of empathy, sympathy, concern and generosity.
The lesson, most broadly, and most blandly, is that those who learn from the Holocaust must learn the importance of empathy and take a stand against injustice.
If all this sounds depressing - who wants to be a dreary, conservative adult when we've all once been radical, free-thinking infants? - then there's one slight consolation available to us: by becoming parents, we can learn the value of empathy and selfless love.
According to the Star Tribune, a teacher at Northpoint Elementary in Blaine, Minnesota decided to use the heart-wrenching loss and Walsh's feelings of guilt as a "teachable moment" for her students as they learn the importance of empathy.
Learn the art of empathy, putting yourself in someone else situation and imagining what it might feel like to have a child, lose a parent or a spouse, break up with a lover.
Learn about the empathy trap and how to avoid it.
Start by supporting them when they cry, so they learn the importance of sensitivity, empathy vulnerability – which, contrary to popular belief, don't lead to weakness but result in the formation of strong men, confident in their abilities, and steeped in self-belief.
From books we learn the importance of kindness, empathy, and commitment.
The author, we learn, hopes to scale the Empathy Wall and learn the Deep Story that can resolve the Great Paradox through a Keyhole Issue.
From her we learn the connection between fiction and empathy, the importance to defend other people's human rights as you would defend your own, the fact that other's rights and freedoms guarantee yours.
