King Arthur's Round Table

Perkins (education, Harvard U.) uses the symbol of the mythical table to argue that equality in communication, and informal conversations as an important element in it, result in more intelligent organizations. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

DAVID PERKINS is a senior professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a founding member of Harvard’s Project Zero, a research outfit focused on cognitive-symbolic capacities and their implications for learning in all settings, and for many years codirected the project with renowned education specialist Howard Gardner. He is also the author of The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking, Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence, and Smart Schools: Better Thinking and Learning for Every Child.