Think on this

from The English Teacher's Companion by Jim Burke:

"Howard Gardner invites us to cultivate 5 kinds of minds if we want to be successful as a nation and, more important, as a world:

• A disciplined mind, that can think well and appropriately in the major disciplines;
• A synthesizing mind, that can sift through a large amount of information, decide what is important, and put it together in ways that make sense for oneself and for others;
• A creative mind, that can raise new questions, come up with novel solutions, think outside the box;
• A respectful mind, that honors the differences among individuals and groups and tries to understand them and work productively with them; and
• An ethical mind, that think, beyond selfish interests, about the kind of worker one aspires to be, and the kind of citizen that one should be."

Indeed.