| He documented ten “habits”
from the children that he studied that “helped them stay in touch
with their inner light.” They included (and I encourage you to ponder
print-based and print-related ways in which we can accomplish these in
literacy programming):
- Exercise
- Patterns (be here now) – pay attention to life patterns, thoughts
and inner feelings ... silence your inner narrator.
- Family and relationships – develop the habit of listening to
others for at least fifteen minutes a day.
- Trust your inner vision and intuition.
- Service – help others, even in simple ways.
- Financial planning ... easier to find spiritual harmony when you
have money in the bank and are not burdened with a lot of debt.
- Diet – eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.
- Meditation/prayer.
- Learn to love – acts of kindness to yourself and others.
- Spirituality – rediscover your relationship with all parts
of the Universe.
On a similar note, Howard Gardner of Harvard University has put forward
a theory on Multiple Intelligences, or different ways of exploring a subject.
Gardner says that human intelligence consists of three components:
- a set of skills that enables one to resolve genuine problems encountered
in one’s life,
- the ability to create an effective product or offer a service that
is of value in one’s culture, and
- the potential for finding or creating problems – thereby laying
the groundwork for the acquisition of new knowledge.
Gardner suggests eight intelligences, which must meet stringent criteria
to be admitted to the list:
- Potential isolation by brain damage.
- Existence of idiots savants, prodigies, and other exceptional individuals.
- An identifiable core operation or set of operations.
- A distinctive developmental history, along with a definable set of
expert “end-state” performances.
- An evolutionary history and evolutionary plausibility.
- Support from experimental psychological tasks.
- Support from psychometric findings
- Susceptibility to encoding in a symbol system.
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