{"id":3130,"date":"2018-06-03T07:16:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T11:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2018-06-03T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T11:16:45","slug":"atul-gawande-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Atul Gawande speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/curiosity-and-the-prisoner\/amp?__twitter_impression=true\">Terrific, thoughtful speech.<\/a>  Two passages that spoke directly to teaching: <\/p>\n<p>One, the section about hospitals as truly mixed spaces could be said about many schools as well. This &#8220;vantage point&#8221; not only fosters empathy but also democratic possibilities; it is within these spaces that we can see and feel difference and commonalities. Schools ought to be capitalizing on this (the best ones do) especially in the world of non-trusting bubbles he describes in the next paragraph.    <\/p>\n<p>Two, the section about curiosity leading to empathy made me sit up in my chair. I&#8217;ve long maintained that teachers need two things &#8212; curiosity and humility &#8212; but Gawande underscores the necessity of curiosity for empathy. You can&#8217;t empathize with anyone if you don&#8217;t care about them and aren&#8217;t thinking about their view of things. And you can&#8217;t develop empathy if you&#8217;re not at least somewhat curious about why people do what they do.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrific, thoughtful speech. Two passages that spoke directly to teaching: One, the section about hospitals as truly mixed spaces could be said about many schools as well. This &#8220;vantage point&#8221; not only fosters empathy but also democratic possibilities; it is within these spaces that we can see and feel difference and commonalities. Schools ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=3130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Atul Gawande speech<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-2017_2018"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Ou","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}