Alex’s Heresies – embracing a physical reality

Last night I attended an end-of-year concert for a friend’s six year old. The school, which hosted the event, had a chart called the Three-Storey Intellect promoting intelligent thinking for students. The concept comes from a quotation of Oliver Wendell Holmes:

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

Alex McCullie

Adrian college summary

Comparison of Blooms taxonomy and 3-storey intellect -PDF