Forum: Wisdom Education: How do we develop Wisdom?

What is wisdom, that we'd teach it? And if we know, how do we teach it?  Sternberg's got a model, proposing layering on an explicit discussion of the wisdom of the decisions and models we encounter in our learning.  Is that sufficient?  

In a session I convened with people I consider wise, the answers ranged from 'models by good people' to 'wisdom can't be taught'.  I believe it certainly can be fostered, and the world would be a better place if we did, so I keep looking... 

If you are considering school level education, in the UK the explicit teaching of how to become wiser would fall somewhere between Thinking Skills and PHSE:

  http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/thinkingskills/guidance/567257?view=get

  http://www.nc.uk.net/webdav/harmonise?Page/@id=6004&Subject/@id=4212

 For adults there are links to some of the various different approaches listed at the bottom of:

  http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?WisdomClub

Douglas
 

Douglas, thanks for those pointers, found some really interesting and valuable resources.  I particularly liked this about how to become wise:

1. By exposing ourselves to wisdom-fostering INFLUENCES, and
   
   
2. by energetically dedicating ourselves to helpful PRACTICES. That is, we intentionally practice, with effort, the behaviors and attitudes that we someday hope to become effortless expressions of our deepest, truest selves.

 Thanks again!