You Learn At Your Best When You

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.

Much Of The Material Presented In Schools Strikes Students As Alien, If Not Pointless.

It May Well Be Easier To Remember A List If One Sings It (or Dances To It). However, These Uses Of The 'materials' Of An Intelligence Are Essentially Trivial. What Is Not Trivial Is The Capacity To Think Musically.

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.

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.