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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
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I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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I’d rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.
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The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
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One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.
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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons.
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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
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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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Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.
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I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
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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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An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.
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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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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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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
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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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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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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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