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
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I think that every educator, indeed every human being, is concerned with what is true and what is not; what experiences to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
If you understand something well, you can represent it, describe it, embody it in several ways. Indeed, if you can only present… — 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
The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
The accumulation and cross-generational transmission of wealth in the United States has gone way too far. When a young hedge-fund manager can… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In… — 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
Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all… — 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
