How did the Smarter model of the mind evolve?
A. During the middle 1950’s and early 1960’s, I was trained, like most others, to believe that the conventional ways of teaching and administering to a singular subject’s intelligences was the end result. In other words, I observed everyone as either quite smart, average or extremely stupid, nothing more … nothing less! Or to coin terminology from the mainstream school of assessing cognitive capabilities, the intelligence quotient (IQ) test was the best way (supposedly) to calculate such smarts. Successful stars of the day (Elvis Presley and The Beatles) and today (50Cent and U2) were not intelligent but merely quite talented in the domain-specific content arena called music. Over time, I gradually came to view this “eye-cure” or negative conception of our minds, as invalid, impractical and irrelevant for overall everyday learning. To comprehend better the viewpoint that the human mind was not a static state but an ongoing dynamic module consisting of “many kinds of minds”, I enrolle
