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We Should Spend Less Time Ranking Children And More Time Helping Them To Identify Their Natural Competencies And Gifts And Cultivate These. There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Ways To Succeed And Many, Many Different Abilities That Will Help You Get There.

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

As A Planet, We Are At Risk Of Destruction (for Example, Gradually By The Warming Of The Planet; Or Rapidly, By Nuclear War Or A Pathogen That Gets Out Of Control). And These Threats Require Us To Work Together, And Not Just To Announce Our Diversity.

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.

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