I Think That Any Important Educational Goal

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.

In Order For Me To 'endorse' An Intelligence, I Need To Carry Out Lots Of Research.

No Individual Can Be In Full Control Of His Fate-our Strengths Come Significantly From Our History, Our Experiences Largely From The Vagaries Of Chance. But By Seizing The Opportunity To Leverage And Frame These Experiences, We Gain Agency Over Them. And This Heightened Agency, In Turn, Places Us In A Stronger Position To Deal With Future Experiences, Even As It May Alter Our Own Sense Of Strengths And Possibilities.

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.

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