Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
From Howard Gardner
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
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