We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.

Education is at a turning point

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

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.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.