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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.

Howard Gardner

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
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Scranton
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Howard Earl Gardner
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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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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 think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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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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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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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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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
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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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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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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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Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
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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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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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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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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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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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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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