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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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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
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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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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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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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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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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 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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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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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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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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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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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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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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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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