It has occurred to me that Compassionate Thinking could be added to Creative Thinking and Critical Thinking as subject areas for Minds in Bloom. Certainly, it is at least as important, as the other two. In fact, a person who possesses the latter two qualities in spades without the first, aside from being a world-class jerk, could also be quite dangerous. So in addition to working to make our children’s brains bigger, let’s also work to make their hearts bigger.

Here is a link if you would like to affirm the charter yourself.

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