Intelligences Are Enhanced When A Person Is

I’d Rather See The United States As A Beacon Of Good Work And Good Citizenship, Rather Than As #1 On Some International Educational Measurement.

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.

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.

Knowledge Is Not The Same As Morality, But We Need To Understand If We Are To Avoid Past Mistakes And Move In Productive Directions. An Important Part Of That Understanding Is Knowing Who We Are And What We Can Do... Ultimately, We Must Synthesize Our Understandings For Ourselves.

All Human Beings Have All Of The Intelligences. But We Differ, For Both Genetic And Experiential Reasons, In Our Profile Of Intelligences At Any Moment.