“In the end, education has to do with fashioning certain kinds of individuals---the kinds of persons I (and others) desire the young of the world to become. I crave human beings who understand the world, who gain sustenance from such understanding, and who want---ardently, perennially---to alter it for the better. Such citizens can only come into existence if students learn to understand the world as it has been portrayed by those who have studied it most carefully and lived in it most thoughtfully; if they become familiar with the range---the summits, the valleys, the straight and meandering paths---of what other humans have achieved; and if they learn always to monitor their own lives in terms of human possibilities, including ones that have not been anticipated before.”

 

--- Howard Gardner ---

The Disciplined Mind,

Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, The K-12 Education

That Every Child Deserves