For
Understanding emotions is key to teamwork, leadership, and empathy.
Against
Emotional topics are personal and cannot be effectively standardized.
Anonymous excerpts, translated where noted.
“Focusing on subject matter alone does students a disservice.”
“Emotinal intelligence is arguably one of the most useful things someone can learn about and would solve a lot of societal problems”
“I went to college to be a teacher to TEACH CONTENT… not SEL.”
“You can't learn the emotional intelligence it's something you pick from your parents and environment”