Education Is At A Turning Point

If Confucius Can Serve As The Patron Saint Of Chinese Education, Let Me Propose Socrates As His Equivalent In A Western Educational Context - A Socrates Who Is Never Content With The Initial Superficial Response, But Is Always Probing For Finer Distinctions, Clearer Examples, A More Profound Form Of Knowing. Our Concept Of Knowledge Has Changed Since Classical Times, But Socrates Has Provided Us With A Timeless Educational Goal - Ever Deeper Understanding.

The Ability To Solve Problems Or To Create Products That Are Valued Within One Or More Cultural Settings.

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.

Most People (by The Time They Have Become Adults ) Can't Change Their Minds Because Their Neural Pathways Have Become Set... The Longer Neural Pathways Have Been Running One Way The Harder It Is To Rewire Them.

To Ask "where In Your Brain Is Intelligence?" Is Like Asking "where Is The Voice In The Radio?"