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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.

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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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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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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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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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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