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

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

No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities.

Education is at a turning point

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

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.

A person who is app-dependent is always searching for the best app; and as soon as its routine has been executed, the person searches for the next app. A person who is app-enabled also uses apps frequently. But he or she is never limited by the current array of apps; apps will free the person to do what he or she wants to do, or needs to do, irrespective of the next application of the app. An app-enabled person can also put devices away, without feeling bereft.