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I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
University Teacher
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
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What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.
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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.
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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own.
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Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us.
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'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
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Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
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While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
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Education is at a turning point
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I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.
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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
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As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet or rapidly, by nuclear war or a pathogen that gets out of control). And these threats require us to work together, and not just to announce our diversity.
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There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.
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The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.
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