1. "The Essential Howard Gardner" with Howard and HGSE's Joe Blatt

Because I have a good memory for stuff I've read.

And even for stuff I've written, I don't even have a particular memory for experiences.

Photographs, of course, are very helpful, and movies now are helpful.

But it's not like I can run a video of what I was like in the summer of 65.

How many of you can kind of run a video of what you were like 10 years ago? And I guess video is helpful because then it comes back.

So I just parenthetically, because I imagine a lot of people here don't know about the Amanda Corson study, that also anticipates kind of the present era, right? Didn't that provoke a whole lot of controversy and banning and so on?

Sure, and we need to talk about that.

But let me first say that If I had to pick three most important experiences in my life, clearly working on matter course of study was one of them because we worked in the Underwood School in Newton where I eventually became a teacher.

Almost nobody knows that I taught K through two for a year.

I was terrible.

But I did it because I felt that if I was studying kids, I should work with them.

But every day we would develop a curricular unit.

We would try it out with kids who were fourth, fifth, and sixth grade, and then we would analyze how it worked, and we would rewrite stuff for the next day.

It was very, very exciting.

And manner of course of study, again, the name is very anachronistic.

Three questions.

What makes human beings human? How did we get to be that way? And how can we be made more so, more human, or we might say more humane? What makes human beings human? How do we get that way? Of course, that's an archeological and anthropological and genetic question.

And how can we be made more so? That's a question about ethics and about love and love of the planet, love of living things, love of even the mountains and the water.

And if you were to ask me, and you may, what I think students should be studying now, I think those three questions.

But what you asked me was,

and this is so reminiscent of today, though I hadn't put two and two together, This

curriculum was well supported by the government and by private foundations.

That's when I first learned about fundraising.

And it was used in Newton Public Schools.

In fact, Leah Rosofsky, the daughter of Henry Rosofsky, was the dean.