Best Of All, Persons Can Sometimes Be

But Once We Realize That People Have Very Different Kinds Of Minds, Different Kinds Of Strengths -- Some People Are Good In Thinking Spatially, Some In Thinking Language, Others Are Very Logical, Other People Need To Be Hands On And Explore Actively And Try Things Out -- Then Education, Which Treats Everybody The Same Way, Is Actually The Most Unfair Education.

Now Intelligence Seemed Quantifiable. You Could Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Height, And Now, It Seemed, You Could Also Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Intelligence. We Had One Dimension Of Mental Ability Along Which We Could Array Everyone... The Whole Concept Has To Be Challenged; In Fact, It Has To Be Replaced.

While We May Continue To Use The Words Smart And Stupid, And While Iq Tests May Persist For Certain Purposes, The Monopoly Of Those Who Believe In A Single General Intelligence Has Come To An End. Brain Scientists And Geneticists Are Documenting The Incredible Differentiation Of Human Capacities, Computer Programmers Are Creating Systems That Are Intelligent In Different Ways, And Educators Are Freshly Acknowledging That Their Students Have Distinctive Strengths And Weaknesses.

An Individual Understands A Concept, Skill, Theory, Or Domain Of Knowledge To The Extent That He Or She Can Apply It Appropriately In A New Situation.

Being Creative Means First Of All Doing Something Unusual... On The Other Hand, However Unusual It May Be, The Idea Also Has To Be Reasonable For People To Take It Seriously.