The Goal Of Education Is

I’d Rather See The United States As A Beacon Of Good Work And Good Citizenship, Rather Than As #1 On Some International Educational Measurement.

An Intelligence Is The Biological And Psychological Potential To Analyze Information In Specific Ways, In Order To Solve Problems Or To Create Products That Are Valued In A Culture.

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.

While We May Continue To Use The Words Smart And Stupid, And While Iq Tests May Persist For Certain Purposes, The Monopoly Of Those Who Believe In A Single General Intelligence Has Come To An End. Brain Scientists And Geneticists Are Documenting The Incredible Differentiation Of Human Capacities, Computer Programmers Are Creating Systems That Are Intelligent In Different Ways, And Educators Are Freshly Acknowledging That Their Students Have Distinctive Strengths And Weaknesses.

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?