compassion – Page 2

…he divides his colleagues into three different types:

1 Compassionate
2 Dispassionate
3 Compassionate

The first group suffer burnout, he said. The second group survive but are “lousy”. It’s the third group that cope, as they “care for patients without sacrificing themselves on the altar of professional vocation”.
What we need to be focusing on in education is preparing young people to be compassionate human beings, not cogs in the capitalist machine.

Source: The spectrum of work autonomy | Doug Belshaw’s Thought Shrapnel

I updated Compassion is not coddling. Design for real life. and Classroom UX: Bring Your Own Comfort, Bring Your Own Device, Design Your Own Context with a selection from The Intersectional Presidency – Tressie McMillan Cottom – Medium.

Intersectionality’s brilliance is that its fundamental contribution to how we view the world seems so common-sense once you have heard it: by focusing on the parts of the system that are most complex and where the people living it are the most vulnerable we understand the system best.

Source: The Intersectional Presidency – Tressie McMillan Cottom – Medium