June 28, 2002

It's Not What You Know, but How You Use It: Teaching for Wisdom

By ROBERT J. STERNBERG

Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes committed in Bosnia, is, if anything, welleducated. He is a physician, trained as a psychiatrist. Unfortunately, he is not alone among war criminals in his attainment of impressive educational credentials: Many top-ranking Nazis were highly educated, possessing doctoral degrees of various kinds. Similarly, today's compleat terrorist is not an uneducated young man yanked off the streets, but a well-educated, carefully trained weapon of mass

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