Wisdom from The Action Wisdom In Action

propelled many agents for change in our own time -- from Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. to Rachel Carson, Nelson Mandela, and Bonn -- to challenge the dominant culture in their efforts to make the world a more just and caring place for everyone to enjoy. We often know a lot about these and other important persons -- that is, we know something about their politics, their moral vision, and their impact on society -- but we generally know little if anything about the spiritual sources that animated (and animate) their commitments to a larger good. Progressive educators have generally abandoned the so-called IQ measurement as the gold standard of educational success. The current consensus is that young person’s need to develop a variety of different types of intelligence to be genuinely successful in an increasingly multicultural world society. They need emotional intelligence, scientific intelligence, multilingual language intelligence, artistic intelligence, moral intelligence, and so forth. Spiritual intelligence needs to be added to this list as well. Without this type of intelligence young people are not fully equipped with the resources necessary for their full participation in a world that cries out for engaged and compassionate leaders.