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

3 See www.winchester.ac.uk/realworldlearning

Intelligence is also increased though incubation – periods when you stop thinking deliberately about the problem

Robert Sternberg writes about successful intelligence,9 which he considers to be a composite of academic or analytical intelligence, creative intelligence and practical intelligence. Analytical intelligence refers to the ability to solve

Reflective intelligence is especially important, says Perkins, ‘in situations that require breaking set ways, unseating old assumptions, and exploring new ones’15. Standing back and invoking their mental control systems at a higher level is what strategically intelligent people do when they are gnawing away at intellectually demanding or

Perkins argues that there are basically three kinds of intelligence. The first he calls neural intelligence, which is essentially the innate ‘envelope of ability’

Papert saw that Jean Piaget, his old mentor, had got it wrong. As children grew up, they did not move from physical learning through imaginary learning and on to formal or rational learning, leaving the earlier modes behind as they ‘outgrew’ them. On the contrary, imagining and reasoning added to observing and experimenting, making practical

14 We acknowledge Carol Dweck at Stanford University for the creation of the helpful musculature metaphor. See Dweck, C. (2006) Mindset. New York: Ballantine Books.

problems using good-quality thinking; creative intelligence refers to the antecedent ability to discover or select good problems to work on, and to generate good ideas that the process of thinking can get to work on. Practical intelligence is the ability to actually get things done and make them work in the real world. Sternberg has shown,