Howard Gardner’s ‘Five Minds For The Future’ uncovers how we as humans need to understand the ways in which our brains develop overtime through the growing and nurturing with time by our side. In his chapter ‘Minds Viewed Globally’, he outlines his ‘five minds’ that one has come to find.

• The disciplined mind: which ‘knows how to work steadily over time to improve skill and understanding’.
• The synthesising mind: the ability to decipher material or information from various places and sources .
• The creating mind: that goes hand in hand with innovation.
• The respectful mind: the power to acknowledge another human being whilst respecting them at the same time
• The ethical mind: uncovers how we as individuals cash better the human race

Gardner underlines education is pivotal in developing not just ourselves but the people around us, that lives at the peak of preparing people for their futures and thus, the education system should be doing more to include these ‘five minds’ into this curriculum. Kids are finding harder and harder to retain information where my group discussed the rise of slow media as being a fundamental importance to adhering to the past, and remembering the present for the future. We as humans only remember and take in five minutes of information a day which makes it extremely difficult for children as young as eight who are now nurtured with an iPhone in one hand whilst a Television lingers in the foreground. The fact is technology is crippling our current generations, what we have to figure out is to establish a healthy, ‘slow’ minded education system that effectively utilises technology in a positive manner for kids of all ages. Gardner comments that: ‘at the start of the third millennium, we live at a time of vast changes’. Hence, I think that education needs to change with the times and educators should not be afraid of these changes. IN effect, we have to look towards countries such as Germany who have been renowned for their education system as a become for the western world that nurtures and guides children to in a positive learning capacity.

When hiring, Gardner delivers the belief that employers should be basing their decisions on the ‘five minds’ whilst searching for individuals who have these five pillars embedded in their way of thinking. Thus, teachers need to be helping students to grow these five minds, so that they will be eligible for the jobs of the future.