I was wondering which of my Wittenberg friends would read this post and comment about Common Learning.  I actually think the Creating Minds book is a great one and when I was working at Georgetown University we regularly used it in our workshops for students applying for fellowships like the Fulbright, Rhodes and Marshall.  The men and women in Gardner's book are the kinds of people who make change happen in their fields rather than wait for change to happen and that's the kind of person and thinking that the major fellowships are looking for.