These include:
- Mastery of the major fields (history,
science, etc.) and at least one professional craft
- "ability to integrate
ideas from different disciplines or spheres"
- "capacity to uncover and
clarify new problems, questions and phenomena"
- respect and awareness of
differences
- understanding of one's responsibilities to others
Futurist Richard Watson taught in Future Files that education needs to emphasize more creative,
entrepreneurial thinking.
He describes the negatives of our current focus,
which trains up generations of expert-dependent followers when we desperately
need thinking creative leaders in nearly all fields--including citizens.
Likewise, former Al Gore speechwriter Daniel Pink wrote in A
Whole New Mind that to prepare students for success in the new economy we need
to emphasize "right-brain" thinking, which includes high-concept thinking,
high-touch leading, the ability to build projects like symphonies, and the
skills of empathy, playing (as adults) and meaning.
All of these provide valuable guides for Scholar Phase.
~Oliver DeMille, TJEd.org 
