Word: goleman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cool was to be "cool." And then, suddenly, it was not. As with all extreme cultural tendencies, something had to snap, and what began to show up in the mid-1990s was an insistent desire to feel passion again and show us you care. In 1995 psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might be ready, indeed eager, to return...
...districts across the country have instituted programs that aim to nourish students' souls as well as their minds. And while the best teachers have long taught kids to behave and play fair, they now have science on their side. In 1995 psychologist and New York Times science writer Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, which contends that children's ability to recognize their own emotions, empathize with peers and deal with crises--their "emotional quotient," or EQ--influences their life chances as much as native intelligence. The book, now a paperback best seller...
...many teachers, this new focus is welcome. The forces driving students to distraction have never been stronger. Says Goleman: "If you are a kid who wants to avoid depression or violence and not drop out, academic topics will have nothing to do with it." Marylu Simon, school superintendent in Highland Park, N.J., says many children arrive at school "simply angry from some situation that has happened at home. It affects their ability to come into the school, sit down at their desk and be ready to learn...
...Goleman closed with a moving anecdote about how an old man on a subway prevented an aggressive bully from harassing fellow passengers by engaging him in friendly conversation...
...Goleman described this Japanese man as the epitome of "emotional brilliance...