Howard Gardner Quotes

I’d Rather See The United States As A Beacon Of Good Work And Good Citizenship, Rather Than As #1 On Some International Educational Measurement.

'til 1983, I Wrote Primarily For Other Psychologists And Expected That They Would Be The Principal Audience For My Book.

While I’ve Worked On Many Topics And Written Many Books, I Have Not Abandoned My Interest In Multiple Intelligences.

To Ask "where In Your Brain Is Intelligence?" Is Like Asking "where Is The Voice In The Radio?"

A Lot Of Knowledge In Any Kind Of An Organization Is What We Call Task Knowledge. These Are Things That People Who Have Been There A Long Time Understand Are Important, But They May Not Know How To Talk About Them. It's Often Called The Culture Of The Organization.

Emile Zola Was A Poor Student At His School At Aix. We Are All So Different Largely Because We All Have Different Combinations Of Intelligences. If We Recognize This, I Think We Will Have At Least A Better Chance Of Dealing Appropriately With Many Problems That We Face In The World.

It May Well Be Easier To Remember A List If One Sings It (or Dances To It). However, These Uses Of The 'materials' Of An Intelligence Are Essentially Trivial. What Is Not Trivial Is The Capacity To Think Musically.

When Speaking To Parents, I Encourage Them To Take Their Child(ren) To A Children's Museum And Watch Carefully What The Child Does, How She/she Does It, What He/she Returns To, Where There Is Definite Growth. Teachers Could Do The Same Or Could Set Up 'play Areas' Which Provide 'nutrition' For Different Intelligences... And Watch Carefully What Happens And What Does Not Happen With Each Child.

In Order For Me To 'endorse' An Intelligence, I Need To Carry Out Lots Of Research.

If One Develops Good Habits And Routines, It Is Possible To Be A Responsible Educator Most Of The Time; And To Marshal The Special Energies And Reflection For Those Times, When The Correct Course Of Action Is Not Clear, Or When One Is Weighing One Wrong Against Another Wrong.

I Think That Every Educator, Indeed Every Human Being, Is Concerned With What Is True And What Is Not; What Experiences To Cherish And Which Ones To Avoid; And How Best To Relate To Other Human Beings. We Differ In How Conscious We Are Of These Questions; How Reflective We Are About Our Own Stances; Whether We Are Aware Of How These Human Virtues Are Threatened By Critiques (philosophical, Cultural) And By Technologies (chiefly The Digital Media). A Good Educator Should Help Us All To Navigate Our Way In This Tangled Web Of Virtues.

In The United States These Days, 'diversity' Is A Big Word And A Buzzword.