Howard Gardner

Education is at a turning point

— 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

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

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

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That…

— Howard Gardner

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

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given…

— Howard Gardner

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally…

— Howard Gardner

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world.…

— Howard Gardner

I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.

— Howard Gardner

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

— Howard Gardner

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has…

— Howard Gardner

Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in…

— Howard Gardner

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

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

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book…

— Howard Gardner

In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so…

— Howard Gardner

“The less a person understands his own feelings, the more he will fall prey to them. The less a person understands the…

— Howard Gardner

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly…

— Howard Gardner

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

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

— Howard Gardner

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

— Howard Gardner

Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.

— Howard Gardner

Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.

— Howard Gardner