I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education, and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.
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.
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.
The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing and by punitive actions against schools that are not performing well.
The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can take home a sum reminiscent of the gross national product of a small country, something is askew.
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.
