We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving -… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does,… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious.… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Every child needs to become literate in one or more languages, and every child should become comfortable in the major scholarly disciplines… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content,… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?" — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal” — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
