I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons..

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding..

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds.

The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in..

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation..

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 ….

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences..

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged..

We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele..

To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?".

In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword..

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes..

Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals..

Education is at a turning point.

If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave..

I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to cherish and which ones to ….

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things..

Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitab….

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book..

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 effect….