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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.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
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