Human Understanding requires Empathic Imagination – the ability to imagine the emotional experience of the other. This is a task as complex as Shakespeare and rocket science to master. It can be taught, and it must be taught, in an educational trajectory that's given the same weight as every other major subject, from elementary through PhD programs.
The purpose of this project is to develop a model curriculum and consider ways of implementing it. 'Thought experiments' are one component of our method.
Examples of "thought experiment" homework assignments are presented in the following pages. They can be read as a series, or individually. Students are asked to 'stretch' themselves, to think more deeply and, by 'imagining' themeselves in another's shoes, perhaps in a way that is new for them.
It is HARD WORK ... it IS rocket science!