Sólo si ampliamos y reformulamos nuestra idea de lo que cuenta como intelecto humano podremos diseñar formas más apropiadas de evaluarlo y educarlo. - Howard Gardner

Present Content and Desired Content One should begin by determining what is the present (current) content — be it an idea, a concept, a story, a theory, a skill — and what is the desired content. Once the desired content has been identified, the various competing countercontents must be specified. The more explicitly one can lay these out, the more likely that one can arrive at a strategy suitable for mind changing in the particular instance. Both contents and countercontents may be presented in various formats.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

Students of extraordinariness lack strong models that can be crisply tested.