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No Individual Can Be In Full Control Of His Fate-our Strengths Come Significantly From Our History, Our Experiences Largely From The Vagaries Of Chance. But By Seizing The Opportunity To Leverage And Frame These Experiences, We Gain Agency Over Them. And This Heightened Agency, In Turn, Places Us In A Stronger Position To Deal With Future Experiences, Even As It May Alter Our Own Sense Of Strengths And Possibilities.

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

Distinguish Between The Work And The Job Title. When I Was Leaving School In The Early 1970s, Many People Wanted To Be Journalists, Carrying Out Investigative Reporting For Print Newspapers. Print Newspapers May Not Exist In Twenty Years. But Good Thinking And Good Writing About Issues That Need To Be Reported And Investigated Will Always Be Needed; But Where This Happens, What It Is Called, And Who Pays For It May Be Quite Different Than Could Have Been Envisioned By The Great Journalists Of The Past.

Now Intelligence Seemed Quantifiable. You Could Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Height, And Now, It Seemed, You Could Also Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Intelligence. We Had One Dimension Of Mental Ability Along Which We Could Array Everyone... The Whole Concept Has To Be Challenged; In Fact, It Has To Be Replaced.

Teaching Which Ignores The Realities Of Children Will Be Rejected As Surely As Any Graft Which Attempts To Ignore The Body's Immune System.