The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.

If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time; and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.

When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.

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.