New Kinds of Smart

MIT’s Centre for Collective Intelligence for an overview of thinking in this area, www.cci.mit.edu

Intelligence, we think, is ultimately about pursuing our passions and goals in life in a way that is compatible with the well-being of our fellow men and women.

More generally, the frontal lobes can set the landscape to be more mountainous or more flat, and can also vary whether there can be a number of centres that are active at the same time, or whether there can only be one, a single ‘train of thought’.

Gesturing reflects the close connection between thinking and making – even when the only physical thing you have to make are shapes in the air! (Doodling also helps people attend, think and remember, for the same reason.11)

3 See www.winchester.ac.uk/realworldlearning

From such complex sets of assumptions each nation has to take a view of what it is that all young people need to know, understand, and be able to do, if they are to meet those challenges, and take advantage of those opportunities, as well as they can.

Education organized around a reasonable number of broad talents and interests, augmented and filled out by serious inquiry into common human problems, stands the best chance of achieving a meaningful equality. Such education, in which students are active co-creators of curriculum, is a truly liberal education for both personal and public life in a

portmanteau name for something that is made up of many ‘instruments’, intricately orchestrated together to make harmonious ‘music’. Being able to cope well with difficulty and uncertainty depends on self-discipline and perseverance. It depends on being on the look-out for sources of help, both material and social. It depends on the ability to atten

it needs to learn how to play with the instruments of investigation, experimentation and imagining, not to try to dominate them.