If you don't know the purpose of a thing you are not really in position to assess its effectiveness. After all these years it seems that we don't know the purpose of education and science.

Test scores reflect only one part of the process of education; the part that applies at the individual level. An educational process that focuses primarily on test scores or individual performance is deficient. Human problems are not caused by our inability to understand the word around us but by our inability to understand each other. Unfortunately, not only do our educational systems pay scant attention to the latter but they seem unaware of the insidious negative effect that the area they focus on has on our ability to understand each other.

It is a lack of faith to have faith without checking the basis of your faith. Faith must not only be based on what an entity can do but in how important it is. That is why I don't only drive my car but I check the oil and other fluids. It makes no sense to have faith in what God can do and have no faith in how important He is to you. If He is important to you, you will continue to assess what you think about Him.

Success is defined by understanding, not by preparation. No amount of preparation will enable you a accomplish a task for which you are not designed or which you do not understand.

Many people seem to think that Systems Thinking is the same thing as thinking systemically. This leads to the idea that there is a group we can identify as systems thinkers. Systems Thinking is a natural condition; to think systemically is a positive action by an individual. Thinking they are the same could be counterproductive, One result is that we are more focused on how to lead organizations/systems instead of understanding the role of systems thinking in how these entities lead themselves.

The greatest battles of all time have been won by the brain not by brute force. This is why the key is critical thinking and not critical action. Yet we have confused the two, advocating critical action while believing it is critical thinking.