I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

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

There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.

It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.