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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.

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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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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The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials.
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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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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
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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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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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I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
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If one develops good habits and routines, it is possible to be a responsible educator most of the time and to marshal the special energies and reflection for those times, when the correct course of action is not clear, or when one is weighing one wrong against another wrong.
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
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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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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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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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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
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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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Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
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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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