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A Pedagogy of Kindness Professor Bertell Ollman Psychosomatic MedicineAcademia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, higher education fails students and instructors and its mission in critical ways. Part manifesto, part teaching memoir, part how to guide, A Pedagogy of Kindness urges higher education to get aggressive about instituting kindness, which Denial distinguishes from niceness. Having suffered beneath the