By Nature, I Am Not An Optimist,

Kids Go To School And College And Get Through, But They Don't Seem To Really Care About Using Their Minds. School Doesn't Have The Kind Of Long Term Positive Impact That It Should.

What We Want... Is For Students To Get More Interested In Things, More Involved In Them, More Engaged In Wanting To Know; To Have Projects That They Can Get Excited About And Work On Over Long Periods Of Time, To Be Stimulated To Find Things Out On Their Own.

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.

Well, If Storytelling Is Important, Then Your Narrative Ability, Or Your Ability To Put Into Words Or Use What Someone Else Has Put Into Words Effectively, Is Important Too.

A Good Person Is One Who Follows The Ten Commandments And The Golden Rule. There Is Plenty Of Precedent In History To Guide Us And We Probably Evolved To Be Sensitive To Bible-golden Rule Situations. But The Dilemmas Faced By A Worker - A Journalist, An Architect, An Auditor - Or By A Citizen (what Position To Take On Stem Cell Research, Whether To Run For Office, What Is The Proper Balance Between Taxation And Social Nets) - Are Not Questions That Can Be Answered By Traditional Texts Or Precedents.