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A while back, someone asked about favorite web sites.  I recently came
across www.edge.org.  It has several great features.  One is a library
of downloadable videotaped interviews of scientists from Rodney Brooks
to EO Wilson (http://www.edge.org/edge_video.html).  For the past few
years, he has asked a group of science hotshots a provocative question.
This year's is "What's Your Law?"  He gets some good responses,
including a pithy one from Howard Gardner below.


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Howard Gardner

Gardner's First Law

Don't ask how smart someone is; ask in what ways is he or she smart.

Gardner's Second Law

You can never go directly from a scientific discovery to an educational
recommendation: all educational practices presuppose implicit or
explicit value judgments.




Eric Siegel
Director of Planning
   & Program Development
Connections Project Director
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368
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www.nyscience.org

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