Education Is At A Turning Point

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.

Now Intelligence Seemed Quantifiable. You Could Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Height, And Now, It Seemed, You Could Also Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Intelligence. We Had One Dimension Of Mental Ability Along Which We Could Array Everyone... The Whole Concept Has To Be Challenged; In Fact, It Has To Be Replaced.

We Need To Focus On The Kind Of Human Beings We Want To Have And The Kind Of Society In Which We Want To Live.

Best Of All, Persons Can Sometimes Be App-transcendent: Making Dramatic Progress Or Discoveries, Without Any Dependence On Any App. In This Context, I Like To Mention Steve Jobs. While He Had As Much To Do As Anyone With The Invention And Development Of Apps, He Never Was Limited By The Current Technology - Indeed, He Typically Transcended It And Relied On His Own Considerable Wits.

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.