à marc et a auteur
L’un des spécialistes de l’intelligence, Howard Gardner – professeur à
Harvard - a écrit ces mots dans un excellent livre The Pursuit of
Excellence Through Education de Michel Ferrari : « Ultimately,
we cannot know in advance who will turn out to be Extraordinary with a
capital E, who will demonstrate a modicum of unusualness, and who will
simply become a competent adult. There will be false positives, as well
as false negatives. Yet there are benefits in treating every individuals
as if he or she were potentially extraordinary. Following the lines
I’ve sketched out, the person will at least have had exposure to
examples of excellence, mastered skills and behaviors that are valued by
the culture, and acquired the metacognitive virtues of reflecting,
leveraging, and framing. These accomplishments make it likely that the
person will realize more of his or her potential. In the process, even
if individuals themselves do not achieve extraordinary feats, the
society in which they live may achieve extraordinary results.”
un vrai plaisir surtout lorsqu’on ne lit pas l’anglais !