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While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner

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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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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 ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
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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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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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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
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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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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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An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.
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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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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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