Five Minds for Future

Learning Times.

Changing times needs changing approach to education and professional success. According to Prof. Howard Gardner, we need Five Mind for Future.

1. Disciplined Mind. This mind is concerned with learning fundamentals of given domain such as engineering or medicine or like. It normally takes 10 years of schooling to master a discipline.

2. Synthesizing mind: is concerned with filtering out important information from the rest in these days of avalanche of information flow. The ability to determine "important" info is based on disciplined mind.

3. Creative mind: comes out with a new way or paradigm that changes a domain or discipline.

4.Respectful Mind: regards and respects other disciplines as much as it demands for its own. Often engineering and other professionals fail to consider liberal arts as distinct and useful

5. Ethical mind.: goes beyond routine thinking and asks "what makes me a good worker? And relatively higher level questions.