For "happiness lessons" read classes on how to manage feelings,attitudes to work and money, political participation, and sex education.Apparently, this idea "has been attacked by traditionalists who sayhappiness lessons create a generation of emotionally weak youngsters andsqueeze more academic subjects off timetables".
Hmm - could that be the traditionalists at the Telegraph? Only daysbefore the paper wrote about plans for or classes in social andemotional intelligence. The Government was likely to be accused of"nannying", it said. Unfortunately for the Telegraph, Lord Layard alsosuggests children be encouraged to take "a critical approach to themedia" so it had better beware newspaper-buyers of the future.
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