Attention and awareness are fundamental qualities of humanity, crucial to almost every human activity, and yet little time, effort or care is spent to systematically train or cultivate focused attention in educational environments.

– Dr. Janna Rosales, who advocates for contemplative education as the answer to this problem.

With our everyday communications becoming divided into 140-character streams in text messaging and on Twitter, it is important to recognize that attention may be a weakness of today’s youth!