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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
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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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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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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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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While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
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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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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
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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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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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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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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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If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
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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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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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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.
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