The best and the brightest

"(...)You are all in the business of educating young people and there are enormous pressures to make them excellent and especially IB schools which are good at achieving that end. I have nothing against excellence, but at the end of the day we do not need more of the best and the brightest, but we need more of those who have good character. That is why the issues of respect and ethics, which are hard to measure objectively, are so terribly important."

Howard Gardner

Five Minds for the Future
at the Ecolint Meeting in Geneva, January 13, 2008