Creativity Begins With An Affinity For Something.

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.

Emile Zola Was A Poor Student At His School At Aix. We Are All So Different Largely Because We All Have Different Combinations Of Intelligences. If We Recognize This, I Think We Will Have At Least A Better Chance Of Dealing Appropriately With Many Problems That We Face In The World.

What We Want... Is For Students To Get More Interested In Things, More Involved In Them, More Engaged In Wanting To Know; To Have Projects That They Can Get Excited About And Work On Over Long Periods Of Time, To Be Stimulated To Find Things Out On Their Own.

While We May Continue To Use The Words Smart And Stupid, And While Iq Tests May Persist For Certain Purposes, The Monopoly Of Those Who Believe In A Single General Intelligence Has Come To An End. Brain Scientists And Geneticists Are Documenting The Incredible Differentiation Of Human Capacities, Computer Programmers Are Creating Systems That Are Intelligent In Different Ways, And Educators Are Freshly Acknowledging That Their Students Have Distinctive Strengths And Weaknesses.

I Reject The Notion That Human Beings Have A Single Intelligence, Which Can Be Drawn On For The Full Range Of Problem Solving.