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“Empathy, the more sought after and inclusive cousin of sympathy, is the experiencing of someone else’s experience in the world: what it would be like if you were wearing their clothes, their life. Now you can never fully understand what it’s like to be someone else but by making the attempt, to take the focus off yourself and put it on someone else, you allow yourself to link, or connect with them on a level of compassion and understanding which leads to a stronger and more complex link. Seeing people for who they really are and understanding that, in reality, they are on the same journey as you (perhaps on slightly different roads) allows for a world where we don’t feel alone.”

Steven Stacks, The Empathetic Classroom