What is Empathy, and why is it important? | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
“Empathy” is a word that props up quite frequently in IEET articles and comment threads, but it is also one of those words that people use quite a lot without necessarily having a very clear idea of what it means.

 

Starting, as I usually do these days, with wictionary, ===> “empathy” is defined as “the intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person”, and alternatively as “[the ] capacity to understand another person’s point of view or the result of such understanding”. <===