If we want the best academic outcomes, the most efficient and cost-effective route to achieve that is, counterintuitively, not to narrowly focus on academics, but to also address children's social, emotional, and physical development. Similarly, the best and most efficient route to physical health is through also addressing emotional, social, and cognitive wellness. Emotional wellness, similarly, depends critically on social, cognitive, and physical wellness.We must always keep our eyes on the goals of education. If the goal of education is not simply the memorization of facts, then we must stop focusing on the memorization of facts in our assessment measures, for what gets assessed is what gets emphasized. If success depends 90% on attitude and effort, only 10% on ability, we must foster can-do attitudes and self-confidence in our students. If the goal of education includes clear reasoning, critical thinking, and creative problem-solving, we must give children, day in and day out, opportunities to solve problems on their own, question assumptions. and reason their way to solutions. If the goal of education includes responsible, caring citizens, then we must give children opportunities, day in and day out, to be responsible and caring, and we must ensure that teachers are not so stressed that they are unable to provide caring role models for our children.