The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.

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

On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed the idea that each of us has a number of relatively independent mental faculties, which can be termed our 'multiple intelligences.'

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

We see that in the top problems in the world between haves and have-nots, generally we find that the root cause is education.

In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history.