How does emotional intelligence fit into the academic curriculum?
There are many kinds of learning that go on in school. And there’s the explicit curriculum — math, language, the content. And there’s the implicit curriculum — learning how to get along with other people, learning how to motivate yourself, learning how to persist, how to resist temptation and stay fixed on a goal, how to work together toward a common goal. These implicit lessons actually over the course of life I believe turn out to be even more important than whether you know how to do quadratic equations.
