Hitler Didn't Travel. Stalin Didn't

Any Good Teacher Should Become Acquainted With Relevant Technologies. But The Technologies Should Not Dictate An Education Goal. Rather, The Teacher (or Parent Or Student Or Policy Maker) Should Ask: Can Technology Help To Achieve This Goal, And Which Technologies Are Most Likely To Be Helpful?

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

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.

In The United States, If You Ask Teachers, "are There Children Whom We Should Call 'gifted?'", Many If Not Most Will Say 'no.' That's The Politically Correct Answer. But If You Then Ask The Teacher To Rank Order Students In Terms Of How Well They Paint Or Write Or Dance, They'll Have Little Difficulty In Doing So.

But Once We Realize That People Have Very Different Kinds Of Minds, Different Kinds Of Strengths -- Some People Are Good In Thinking Spatially, Some In Thinking Language, Others Are Very Logical, Other People Need To Be Hands On And Explore Actively And Try Things Out -- Then Education, Which Treats Everybody The Same Way, Is Actually The Most Unfair Education.