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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

Howard Gardner

Smart, Matter

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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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Teaching, Different, Use

"Whole Family Learning: Experiences Living and Teaching In China". Book by Joseph Will and Laurie Myers, 2015.

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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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Inspirational, Education, Mistake

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We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there.

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Children, Different, Way

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You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

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Teaching, Learning, Care

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But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

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Thinking, Hands, People

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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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Culture, Problem, Ability

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The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

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People, Goal, Mind

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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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Moments, Reason, Profile

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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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Children, Mind, World

Howard Gardner (2006). “The Development and Education of the Mind: The Selected Works of Howard Gardner”, p.166, Routledge

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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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Teaching, Learning, Long

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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

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Ignorance, Thinking, Trying

Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. September 3, 2009.

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Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence.

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Teacher, Motivation, Exercise

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Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.

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School, Kids, Skills

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Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

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Leadership, Powerful, Tools

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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

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Love, Marriage, Fall

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If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.

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Believe, Slave, Workers

"The Ethical Mind". Howard Gardner, Harvard Business Review, March 2007.

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An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

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Math, Skills, Individual

Howard Gardner (1999). “The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should Understand”

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Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.

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School, Students, Aliens

Howard Gardner (1991). “The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and how Schools Should Teach”, Basic Books

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We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

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Focus, Needs, Want

"The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.

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Children, Home, School

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What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc.

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School, Musical, Tasks

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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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School, Kids, College

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As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet; or rapidly, by nuclear war or a pathogen that gets out of control). And these threats require us to work together, and not just to announce our diversity.

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War, Diversity, Risk

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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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Believe, Years, Musical

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"Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!"

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Born: July 11, 1943
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