Nerd News: UK Students to Have Lessons in Happiness

This is another example of both UK and US edu-crats running amok in schools and diluting knowledge with "feel-goodism," but I simply have to quote this bit:

The weather is grim, the economy is in a mess, but ministers believe that they can restore the feelgood factor – by teaching children how to look on the bright side of life.

The government is backing a new project designed to “immunise” youngsters from getting the blues by educating them in the art of happiness at a young age. In a programme imported from the United States, 11-year-olds are to be taught how to shrug off setbacks and banish pessimistic thoughts, helping them to cope with whatever life throws at them.

Happiness lessons? "Teaching children how to look on the bright side of life," eh? Am I the only one who immediately thought of this?

This whole thing also reminds me of two great little quips about how to deal with low happiness:

1. If your employees are unhappy, just fire all the unhappy people.
2. Floggings will continue until morale improves!

Makes me laugh. Happiness lessons. Every graduate student on the planet would probably fail those lessons!