A school education can give you the potential to one day achieve a great job, or before that, to go to a good college. Even though schools can give you a valulable education, schools don't give you"street smarts". Schools can't teach common sense. They do an excellent job of testing IQ and maximizing a student's academic potential, but they don't teach or test EI. EI stands for emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the capacity to perceive emotions and to enhance thinking using the perception of the emotions involved. Emotions shape our everyday lives and may determine our actions for the day, or how we go about relating to those around us. It is one thing to get a good job, but it is completely different to be able to successfully keep that job. The most valuable lessons we could learn is how to interact with the world around us in a healthy way. Unfortunately that's not the focus of traditional education today.
By the way, here is the writing prompt I was telling you about. It would probably be helpful for you to have that. Here it is. Just click on the text. Click here. HERE!
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