Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

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.

What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.