Intellectual Character: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Get It

What if education were less concerned with final exams and more concerned with who students become as a result of their schooling? What if we viewed being smart as a goal that students can work toward rather than as something they either are or are not? Envisioning education in this way implies that we will need to rethink many of our long-accepted views on schooling, teaching, and learning. This book explores a new and more hopeful vision of education as the development of students' intellectua…