Decline In Empathy And A Rise In Narcission

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Since body and mind are connected, ignoring the importance of one will harm the other. The modern education system overlooks the concept of body-mind unity. In order to prepare their students for tomorrow’s world, the schools focus on developing students’ mind by raising the required school work and standardized tests, while ignoring the benefits of body development such as play and exercising. Both Dr. Gray and Scott Carson have pointed out this fact in their articles. In the play deficit, the author believes that “The decline in opportunity to play has been accompanied by a decline in empathy and a rise in narcissism (Gray).” The increase of school works undermine the development of personalities. At the same time, there has been an increase

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