| "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you | | | | psychologist at Harvard) books Creating Minds and |
| become a soldier, you will become a general. If you | | | | Leading Minds throw some light on the factors that |
| become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' | | | | influenced many twentieth century world figures: |
| Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as | | | | Picasso, Einstein, Martha Graham, Alfred P. Sloan, |
| Picasso." Famous quote from Pablo Picasso. What did | | | | Thatcher, Gorbachev, and Gandhi. However, he only |
| Einstein's mother say to him? | | | | traces the event histories, less the role of education |
| Recently, I found a yellowed volume of Jawaharlal | | | | or parenting. |
| Nehru's (First Prime Minister of independent India) | | | | I am trying to test the following hypothesis: If |
| letters to his daughter, Indira Priyadarshini, at the Fort | | | | someone meaningful enough to the child (parent, |
| Mason used bookstore in San Francisco. These letters | | | | teacher, other role model) believes in his/her |
| were written from prison, and as you read them, | | | | potential, and instills that belief in the child, is that the |
| you would feel a father preparing his beloved | | | | first step in reaching for Greatness or for world class |
| daughter for becoming a world leader. Indira Gandhi, | | | | achievement? |
| of course, went on to also become a Prime Minister | | | | And then, if the hypothesis is true, how can this be |
| of India. | | | | worked into the educational system, products, and |
| I have always been intrigued by the question: What | | | | services to give a much larger set of youngsters |
| is the model for raising a high-performance child? | | | | enough confidence to believe that they can, indeed, |
| Some of Howard Gardner's (development | | | | have a world class destiny? |