British school to offer happiness lessons

[deadparrot]

LONDON (AFP) - One of Britain's leading fee-paying schools is to offer classes on happiness to combat the malaise in society caused by materialism and celebrity obsession, its headteacher announced.

"We are introducing classes on happiness," said Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College, in Crowthorne, Berkshire, west of London.

"We have been focusing too much on academics and missing something far more important."

A psychologist will oversee a pilot project teaching "happiness lessons" -- or "well-being" as it is being called -- from the start of the next academic year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060417/od_afp/britaineducationoffbeat

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. I'm happy about that

I wish I had happiness classes at school... certain A for me :)

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[Robb]

2. Because everyone knows the U.K. is known for happiness above all else

...now, a graduate-level course on sardonic wit, I can see. :D

[Bruce McAuley]

3. Hard to be happy when it rains...

I know, having been born and raised in Seattle. Now I live in the sunshine, and am way happier..
Don't Worry, Be Happy!
Wasn't it George senior who said that?
"What, Me Worry?"
Alfred E. Newman, LOL

Bruce
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[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I possess

I thank the lord, that I possess, more than my share of happiness.

[JVS]

5. This sucks!

this is how mind control begins.

UNITE YOU GRUMPY MASSES!

[OKthatsIT]

9. Don't worry, be happy~~

Go to sleep~
Not a peep~
...but wake in time~
............to join the sheep~

[wickerwoman]

6. This could be interesting.

I remember reading "Life 101" in high school (not as an assignment) and I'm glad I did. I don't think high school kids learn enough philosophy.

[BooScout]

7. Don't worry....be happy!

....and now we get to learn how to be happy.:eyes:

[BuddhaGirl]

8. what a marvelous idea!

"Pupils aged 14 to 16 will be given one lesson a week, learning skills such as how to manage relationships, physical and mental health, negative emotions and how to achieve one's ambitions.

The college's religious education staff will teach the course as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, conventional RE classes, said Seldon, who is also a political commentator and author.

"To me, the most important job of any school is to turn out young men and women who are happy and secure -- more important that the latest bulletin from the Department for Education about whatever," explained Seldon.

Our children need to know that as societies become richer, they don't become happier -- a fact regularly shown by social science research."

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I don't see anything wrong with this - in fact I think it would be really beneficial.