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

One Must Exploit The Asynchronies That Have Befallen One, Link Them To A Promising Issue Or Domain, Reframe Frustrations As Opportunities, And, Above All, Persevere.

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.

A Lot Of Knowledge In Any Kind Of An Organization Is What We Call Task Knowledge. These Are Things That People Who Have Been There A Long Time Understand Are Important, But They May Not Know How To Talk About Them. It's Often Called The Culture Of The Organization.

Distinguish Between The Work And The Job Title. When I Was Leaving School In The Early 1970s, Many People Wanted To Be Journalists, Carrying Out Investigative Reporting For Print Newspapers. Print Newspapers May Not Exist In Twenty Years. But Good Thinking And Good Writing About Issues That Need To Be Reported And Investigated Will Always Be Needed; But Where This Happens, What It Is Called, And Who Pays For It May Be Quite Different Than Could Have Been Envisioned By The Great Journalists Of The Past.