How to Talk to Human Beings: Communicating Critically and Constructively with Difficult Urban Students

In the preface of his brilliant bestseller 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene explained something apparently unknown to most urban teachers: “Emotions cloud reason, and if you can’t see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control. Anger is the most destructive of emotional responses, for it clouds your vision the most.” I would argue that frustration is the second most destructive emotional response. They both have “a ripple effect that invariably...