After surveying over 3,000 students about kindness, I learned a lot about how children and teens understand and practice this quality, especially in school. The results may surprise parents and educators. Researchers have extensively studied the effects of kindness on the well-being of individuals. They found that acts of kindness such as paying something to a stranger, counting the number […] … learn more→

Weaving and hoarding There’s a striking moment in George Eliot’s 1861 novel, Silas Marner, when the miserly weaver is described as being so entirely reduced to the “functions of weaving and hoarding” that his face and figure shrink and bend themselves into “a constant mechanical relation to the objects of his life”. Marner works his loom […] … learn more→