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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
University Teacher
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
Optimist
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Nature
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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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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.
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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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Education is at a turning point
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We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.
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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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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged in fact, it has to be replaced.
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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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Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
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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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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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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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'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
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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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