The Importance of Emotion in Education

John Avlon: What's happened to our ability to think critically, to way accumulate and weigh the evidence and the facts? He says we are raising young people on social media, where you resolve an argument with an emotional claim. Avlon: We now surprise that they don't want to resolving an argument with reasoned and logic debate. It's not just a cultural question; what's happened in our education system?Avlon: Well, emotion is king these days. And by and large, the people who make the biggest emotional claims tend to win most of the arguments.