We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to… — 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… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
For most, the school is the first model of a community, and it can be a very powerful one. We need to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
On the basis of research in several disciplines, including the study of how human capacities are represented in the brain, I developed… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Much of education can and should take place in schools and other formally designated community institutions. But the world beyond the schoolhouse… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John… — 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
