Howard Gardner Quotes

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• To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
• Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
• Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence.…
• Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
• If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a…
• What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects…
• You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
• 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 deeply…
• 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 in…
• Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
• Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An…
• It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
• But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some…
• Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
• The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
• If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
• No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
• Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner…
• The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better
• We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

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