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As A Planet, We Are At Risk Of Destruction (for Example, Gradually By The Warming Of The Planet; Or Rapidly, By Nuclear War Or A Pathogen That Gets Out Of Control). And These Threats Require Us To Work Together, And Not Just To Announce Our Diversity.

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.

I Am Relieved That, In My Own Teaching, I Don't Have To Moderate Between High Stake Teaching And Education For The Virtues. If I Did, I Would Give Students The Tools To Take The Tests But Not Spend An Inordinate Amount Of Time On Test Prep Nor On 'teaching To The Test.' If The Students, Or Their Parents, Want Drill In Testing, They'd Have To Go Elsewhere. As A Professional, My Most Important Obligation Is To Teach The Topic, Skills, And Methods In Ways That I Feel Are Intellectually Legitimate.

We Need To Focus On The Kind Of Human Beings We Want To Have And The Kind Of Society In Which We Want To Live.

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.