Pilot schemes in schools. Useful material. That kind of thing. This caused some experts to go ever-so-slightly bonkers, as we emotional literati say. A Guardian writer asked them: can feelings be taught?
Psychologist Oliver James recoiled "in horror" at the thought: "Pupils are not hardware computers onto which software can be downloaded."
Frank Furedi, a sociologist, was even wilder: "It's a symptom of moral illiteracy that you have to try to colonise people's internal lives in this way." We don't use lobotomies any more, he pointed out, "so we do it like this".
Steady on, chaps. Time for a quick emotional literacy question: are you sure that what you are getting frantic about has really happened?
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