Capacity for policy deliberation, “21st-Century Mind” article

Here’s another interesting article around the same theme of education for socio economic development: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=multiple-intelligences-decisions-ethics. For me, it sheds light on the fact that good policy and arrangements is a product of capacity, not of a single model. However, on a related note, the capacity of individuals and society is interrelated: individuals’ progress is limited by an unjust system and a system cannot work well if individuals are not capable. This seems to imply, then, that some sort of continuous, conscious learning process needs to be developed through which both individuals and social arrangements are gradually changed to reflect our deepening understanding.