They also should approach education in its fullest sense of the word, meeting the students where they are, and bring them forth. That means meeting them emotionally as well as intellectually. They must care about their students' fears, their hurt, their anger, and their despair, about their hopes and their dreams, their strengths and their weaknesses, about their struggles and their accomplishments. In effect, a key element in this educational overhaul is the psychological dimension of our children. Classical education not only doesn't attend to psychological needs, it tends to look down on them.
Intellectual elitism considers itself superior to and apart from any emotional needs.
Science, math and literature outrank psychology every time. A big mistake, but a common one and a legitimized one. Academics are a school's sacred cow. Psychological health is its assumed state. To have to include psychological issues in its curriculum is to lower its standards and to have to address psychological health is an embarrassment.