Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

The emotional brain is highly attuned to symbolic meanings and to the mode Freud called the 'primary process' - the messages of metaphor, story, myth, the arts.

Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.

Happy, calm children learn best

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.