Daniel H. Pink wrote last year's hot education book "A Whole New Mind". While it is not perfect, it lays a foundation of skills important for students to succeed. It is how they perceive their world, but not how they think in school. To move from the concrete, I created this overview of Mr. Pink's ideas.

1. why we do what we do…

2. The Six Senses Design Story Symphony Empathy Play Meaning

3. Major Ages of Development Agricultural Age (farmers) Industrial Age (factory workers) Information Age (knowledge workers) Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)

4. Your Career: Questions to Ask Can a computer do it faster?

5. Your Career: Questions to Ask Can a computer do it faster? Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance?

6. Your Career: Questions to Ask Can a computer do it faster? Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance? Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

7. The Six Senses Design Story Symphony Empathy Play Meaning

8. Designmoving beyond function to engage the sense

9. Storynarrative context. best of the six senses

10. Symphonybig picture thinking (not just detail focus)

11. Empathyengaging emotion and intuition

12. Playhumor and light-heartedness

13. Meaninggive purpose to your life

14. how school works today Subject Content

15. how school works today Subject Content Personal Experience

16. how school works today Subject Content Synthesis Personal Experience

17. how school worked years ago Subject Content Subject Content Subject Content maybe you’ll use it…

18. Your Career: Questions to Ask Can a computer do it faster? Is what I'm offering in demand in an age of abundance? Can someone overseas do it cheaper?

19. The New Skill Set

20. how school works today Subject Content Synthesis Personal Experience