U. S. education attempts to cultivate children's minds and bodies, lets their emotions grow like weeds or wildflowers. The results of this neglect, think mental hygienists, appear in the appallingly high rates of U. S. divorce, crime and insanity, in a national jitteriness. Last week the American Council on Education published a report* proposing that the schools pay as much attention to children's emotions as to the three Rs.
The committee that produced the report spent four years exploring the relation of emotion to learning. It had a grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Its chairman is husky, placid Professor...
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