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The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

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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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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.
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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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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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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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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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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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