I Think That Any Important Educational Goal

When A Child Is Thriving, There Is No Reason To Spend Time Assessing Intelligences. But When A Child Is Not Thriving - In School Or At Home - That Is The Time To Apply The Lens Of Multiple Intelligences And See Whether One Can Find Ways To Help The Child Thrive In Different Environments.

I Believe That The Brain Has Evolved Over Millions Of Years To Be Responsive To Different Kinds Of Content In The World. Language Content, Musical Content, Spatial Content, Numerical Content, Etc.

There Are Clear Differences Between Child And Adult Artistic Activity. While The Child May Be Aware That He Is Doing Things Differently From Others, He Does Not Fully Appreciate The Rules And Conventions Of Symbolic Realms; His Adventurousness Holds Little Significance. In Contrast, The Adult Artist Is Fully Cognizant Of The Norms Embraced By Others; His Willingness, His Compulsion, To Reject Convention Is Purchased, At The Very Least, With Full Knowledge Of What He Is Doing And Often At Considerable Psychic Cost To Himself.

I Align Myself With Almost All Researchers In Assuming That Anything We Do Is A Composite Of Whatever Genetic Limitations Were Given To Us By Our Parents And Whatever Kinds Of Environmental Opportunities Are Available.

I Reject The Notion That Human Beings Have A Single Intelligence, Which Can Be Drawn On For The Full Range Of Problem Solving.