Learning Stories
by
Mario deSantis
mariodesantis@hotmail.com
“I am a Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, and free to choose those who shall govern my country.” - -The Rt. Hon. John Diefenbaker, Canadian Bill of Rights, 1960
“The whole judicial system is at issue, it's worth more than one person.”--Serge Kujawa, Saskatchewan Crown Prosecutor, 1991
“The system is not more worth than one person's rights.”--Mario deSantis, 2002
Ensign Stories © Mario deSantis and Ensign
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The recurrent assertions that we have to bow to the logic of science of our researchers(1), and to the rational arguments of our politicians must stop(2). This parochial view of the logical and rational intelligence relegated in the minds of the few and privileged is responsible for the current wrongs of globalization and the breakdown of our democracies. Professor Howard Gardner(3) states that the logic or rational abilities don't make up our intelligence, and in fact he distinguishes multiple intelligences such as the linguistic of the poets, the logical and mathematical of the scientists, the musical of the composers, the spatial of sculptors and airplane pilots, the kinesthetics of dancers and athletes, the interpersonal of the teachers and salesmen, the intrapersonal within ourselves, the natural of the hunter. Also, Gardner refers to the contextual and distributed understanding of intelligence and includes friends, books, computer files--and I would add Internet bookmarks-- as part of our overall intelligence. Writer Daniel Goleman has described emotional intelligence(4) as the ability to empathize and relate to others, and professor Donah Zohar has further defined another intelligence, the spiritual intelligence(5), that intelligence which makes us whole, integral and transformative. Intelligence is people and it is democracy, intelligence is not multinational corporations and it is not globalization. References/endnotes Relevant political and economics articles http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign 1. Proper way to challenge study: more research, by Dr. Barry McLennan, The StarPhoenix, June 30, 2000, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/reality/Universitybecomesbusiness/undefendable/mclennan.html 2. The Third Way & Free Trade: The bounded rationality of Herb Gray and Tony Blair, by Mario deSantis, March 5, 2001 3. Howard Gardner is co-director of Project Zero at Harvard University He is credited with the development of the multiple intelligence theory. His publications include Frames of Mind, The Unschooled Mind, Creating Minds, and Multiple Intelligences. Booknotes Transcript, by Brian Lamb, Air Date: October 5, 1997 (re: Extraordinary Minds: Portraits of Four Exceptional Individuals and an Examination of Our Own Extraordinariness, by Howard Gardner) http://www.c-span.org/mmedia/booknote/lambbook/transcripts/50432.htm Also refer to the sites: http://www.zephyrpress.com/gardner.htm http://www.newhorizons.org/trm_mipattern.html http://www.newhorizons.org/crfut_gardner.html http://pzweb.harvard.edu/Research/Research.htm http://www.pz.harvard.edu/WhatsNew/HGNYT.htm 4. Emotional Intelligence http://www.eplay.com/1999-01-09/company/emotional.adp Chapter 1, The New Yardstick, Excerpted from Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Copyright © 1998 by Daniel Goleman and Amazon.com http://www.moneysearch.com/guestwriters/commonsmart1.html Working With Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman http://www.bookbrowse.com/nonfiction/reviews/goleman_daniel.html 5. SQ - Spiritual Intelligence, Danah Zohar http://www.dzohar.com/home.htm |
