I wouldn’t mind the Government teaching “happiness” if the U.S education system was efficient but like in many countries, it is a very inefficient machine, what can you except from an inefficient machine ?

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In the lessons, 11-year-olds are taught how to cope with difficult situations and emotions and to develop positive attitudes, assertiveness, aspirations and a better approach to decision making.

They are encouraged not to think or react like Chicken Little, the hen in the fable who wrongly feared the sky was falling in.

It is hoped that the classes will equip youngsters better to cope with the challenges of adulthood.

Those in favour of the U.S. programme say it has been shown significantly to reduce rates of anxiety and depression in the young.

But critics believe the classes sound much like common sense and are a waste of timetable space.

If you want good servants in your country, you make them scared with a so-called “War on Terror” and you make them accept their condition with acceptance techniques (happiness class, drugs, entertainment).

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