Education Is At A Turning Point

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

Intelligences Are Enhanced When A Person Is Engaged In Activities That Involve The Exercise Of That Intelligence. It Helps To Have Good Teachers, Ample Resources, And Personal Motivation. Anyone Can Improve Any Intelligence; But It Is Easier To Improve The Intelligence If Those Factors Are Available And If You Have High Potential In That Intelligence.

You Learn At Your Best When You Have Something You Care About And Can Get Pleasure In Being Engaged In.

I Need To Add That My Work On Multiple Intelligences Received A Huge Boost In 1995 When Daniel Goleman Published His Book On Emotional Intelligence. I Am Often Confused With Dan. Initially, Though Dan And I Are Longtime Friends, This Confusion Irritated Me.

There Are Clear Differences Between Child And Adult Artistic Activity. While The Child May Be Aware That He Is Doing Things Differently From Others, He Does Not Fully Appreciate The Rules And Conventions Of Symbolic Realms; His Adventurousness Holds Little Significance. In Contrast, The Adult Artist Is Fully Cognizant Of The Norms Embraced By Others; His Willingness, His Compulsion, To Reject Convention Is Purchased, At The Very Least, With Full Knowledge Of What He Is Doing And Often At Considerable Psychic Cost To Himself.