Abstract
The 2014 Harvard Graduate School of Education project Making Caring Common (Harvard Study), queried the ranking of the following personal values among millennials: “achievement,” “happiness,” and “concern for others,” and found that almost 80% of respondents prioritized “high achievement” or “happiness,” while only 20% prioritized “caring for others.” The authors concluded that millennial youth do not prioritize caring and concern for others over personal success and achievements because parents are more concerned about achievement or happiness than caring for others, and parents model these priorities to their children. As law educators teaching professional identity to law students, our role is to model the caring behavior that our students’ parents may not have modeled, and equalize the values triad of achievement, happiness, and care and concern for others. My article includes exercises to teach students to listen closely to others to ascertain their needs and to consider the larger issues of justice in the community and society.
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