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Education is at a turning point

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Howard Gardner
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 11
Psychologist
University Teacher
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Howard Earl Gardner
Education
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Turning

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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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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.
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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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While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
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Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori
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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways.
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My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.
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The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.
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