I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

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

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them.

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

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

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.