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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

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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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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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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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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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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Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
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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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While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
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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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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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My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.
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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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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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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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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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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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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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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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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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