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Howard Gardner has 49 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know;…
• 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…
• If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good…
• 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…
• It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.

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