Teaching Which Ignores The Realities Of Children

Any Good Teacher Should Become Acquainted With Relevant Technologies. But The Technologies Should Not Dictate An Education Goal. Rather, The Teacher (or Parent Or Student Or Policy Maker) Should Ask: Can Technology Help To Achieve This Goal, And Which Technologies Are Most Likely To Be Helpful?

Hitler Didn't Travel. Stalin Didn't Travel. Saddam Hussein Never Traveled. They Didn't Want To Have Their Orthodoxy Challenged.

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.

But Once We Realize That People Have Very Different Kinds Of Minds, Different Kinds Of Strengths -- Some People Are Good In Thinking Spatially, Some In Thinking Language, Others Are Very Logical, Other People Need To Be Hands On And Explore Actively And Try Things Out -- Then Education, Which Treats Everybody The Same Way, Is Actually The Most Unfair Education.

I Believe That The Brain Has Evolved Over Millions Of Years To Be Responsive To Different Kinds Of Content In The World. Language Content, Musical Content, Spatial Content, Numerical Content, Etc.