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We've Got To Do Fewer Things In School. The Greatest Enemy Of Understanding Is Coverage... You've Got To Take Enough Time To Get Kids Deeply Involved In Something So They Can Think About It In Lots Of Different Ways And Apply It.

In Roughly The Last Century, Important Experiments Have Been Launched By Such Charismatic Educators As Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, And A. S. Neil. These Approaches Have Enjoyed Considerable Success[...] Yet They Have Had Relatively Little Impact On The Mainstream Of Education Throughout The Contemporary World.

We Should Spend Less Time Ranking Children And More Time Helping Them To Identify Their Natural Competencies And Gifts And Cultivate These. There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Ways To Succeed And Many, Many Different Abilities That Will Help You Get There.

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.

Any Good Teacher Should Become Acquainted With Relevant Technologies. But The Technologies Should Not Dictate An Education Goal. Rather, The Teacher (or Parent Or Student Or Policy Maker) Should Ask: Can Technology Help To Achieve This Goal, And Which Technologies Are Most Likely To Be Helpful?