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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.

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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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
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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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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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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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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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