Howard Gardner Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

Books Children Culture Diversity Goals Learning Opportunity

Best of all, persons can sometimes be app-transcendent: making dramatic progress or discoveries, without any dependence on any app. In this context, I like to mention Steve Jobs. While he had as much to do as anyone with the invention and development of apps, he NEVER was limited by the current technology - indeed, he typically transcended it and relied on his own considerable wits.

Howard Gardner

Jobs, Technology, Discovery

Source: howardgardner.com

7 Copy quote
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.

Howard Gardner

Luck, Degrees, World

"Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

6 Copy quote
In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so much so, that it is inconceivable to them that they can, for long, be separated from their devices. Indeed, many of us who are not young, who are 'digital immigrants' rather than 'digital natives,' are also wedded to, if not dependent on, our digital devices.

Howard Gardner

Long, People, Digital

Source: howardgardner.com

9 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

Reflection, Special, Energy

Source: howardgardner.com

4 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

Beautiful, Divergent, Truth Is

Source: blogs.edweek.org

4 Copy quote
When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how she/she does it, what he/she returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences... and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.

Howard Gardner

Teacher, Children, Museums

Source: howardgardner.com

4 Copy quote
A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents.

Howard Gardner

Running, Cells, Office

Source: blogs.edweek.org

8 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

School, Thinking, Zola

4 Copy quote
To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"

Howard Gardner

Voice, Brain, Asking

7 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

Encouragement, Creativity, America

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

6 Copy quote
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Howard Gardner

Years, Twenties, Different

7 Copy quote
In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.

Howard Gardner

Teacher, Children, Writing

Source: howardgardner.com

7 Copy quote
Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past.

Howard Gardner

Jobs, School, Writing

Source: howardgardner.com

4 Copy quote
In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.

Howard Gardner

Diversity, United States, Bigs

Source: howardgardner.com

4 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

Passion, Common Humanity, Differences

Source: howardgardner.com

4 Copy quote
It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

Howard Gardner

Teaching, Thinking, Use

Howard Gardner (1999). “Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century”, p.90, Basic Books

4 Copy quote
A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

Howard Gardner

Organization, Long, People

4 Copy quote
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

Howard Gardner

Book, Would Be, Psychologist

"Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner, Part I". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.

4 Copy quote
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.

Howard Gardner

Educational, United States, Measurement

"Living Legends: An Interview With Howard Gardner". Interview with Matthew Lynch, Ed.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2012.

7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Robert Sternberg

Lev S. Vygotsky

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Latest quotes from interviews

"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!"

- Howard Gardner,

multipleintelligencesoasis.org, added May 18, 2017

More (33)

Howard Gardner

Follow

Born: July 11, 1943
Occupation: Psychologist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics