Education Is At A Turning Point

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.

As A Planet, We Are At Risk Of Destruction (for Example, Gradually By The Warming Of The Planet; Or Rapidly, By Nuclear War Or A Pathogen That Gets Out Of Control). And These Threats Require Us To Work Together, And Not Just To Announce Our Diversity.

Our Way Of Managing And Leading, Rewarding And Judging People Is Totally Out Of Tune With The Fact That We Are All Individuals.

We Should Spend Less Time Ranking Children And More Time Helping Them To Identify Their Natural Competencies And Gifts And Cultivate These. There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Ways To Succeed And Many, Many Different Abilities That Will Help You Get There.

Don't Assume That The Way That One Searches And Researches Is The Same From One Era To Another - It Isn't. In The 19th Century, Most Research Was Done By Amateurs: Either Individuals Who Were Rich Or Individuals Who Had A Day Job. In The 20th Century, Most Researchers Worked At Universities Or Think Tanks And Received Money From The Government Or From Foundations To Pursue Their Work. In Our Time, The Sources Of Support And The Locations For Research May Be Quite Different.