Synthesising not memorising: a manifesto for authentic, rigorous, future-focussed learning and study. Mike talks to Professor Howard Gardner about his 2020 memoir and the concept of 'synthesising/synthesizing'.

With the help of researcher Matthew Courtney, we discover Howard's take on Donald Trump, Brexit, Charles Darwin and virgin births - yes you'll need to do some synthesising of your own this episode!

In part 2 later this month Howard will talk about artificial intelligence and we'll find out what he really thinks of ChatGPT.