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