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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
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Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
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Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.
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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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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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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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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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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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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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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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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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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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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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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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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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