A successful learning experience doesn’t just involve a learner knowing more—it’s about them being able to do more with that knowledge. • Sometimes a learner’s main gap is knowledge, but more frequently knowledge and information are just the supplies the learner needs to develop skills. • Use the question “Is it reasonable to think that someone can

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner

discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it. Far too many people—especially people with great expertise in one area—are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas or believe that being bright is a substitute for knowledge. First-rate engineers, for instance, tend to take pride in not knowing anything abou

Some organizations begin with an overall analysis of the policies of the current system. Which aspects support learning? Which might inhibit or block learning?