Howard Gardner

Education is at a turning point

— Howard Gardner

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.

— Howard Gardner

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to…

— Howard Gardner

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

— Howard Gardner

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

— Howard Gardner

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants…

— Howard Gardner

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has…

— Howard Gardner

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem…

— Howard Gardner

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international…

— Howard Gardner

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots…

— Howard Gardner

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe…

— Howard Gardner

While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person…

— Howard Gardner

Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the…

— Howard Gardner

Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or…

— Howard Gardner

On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed…

— Howard Gardner

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best…

— Howard Gardner

Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines…

— Howard Gardner

Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in…

— Howard Gardner

If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational…

— Howard Gardner

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different…

— Howard Gardner

What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know;…

— Howard Gardner

I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to…

— Howard Gardner

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we…

— Howard Gardner

A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to…

— Howard Gardner

I am relieved that, in my own teaching, I don't have to moderate between high stake teaching and education for the virtues.…

— Howard Gardner

There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently…

— Howard Gardner

Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be…

— Howard Gardner

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal”

— Howard Gardner

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.

— Howard Gardner

In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner