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Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

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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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful.
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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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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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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.
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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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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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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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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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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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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 communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
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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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