Howard Gardner quotes

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences. (Howard Gardner)
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit. View quote
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If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave. View quote
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Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place. View quote
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The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways. View quote
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If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying. View quote
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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. View quote
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Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. (Howard Gardner)
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. View quote
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My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. View quote
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Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong. View quote
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While truth is ultimately convergent, beauty is ultimately divergent. No one can and no one should tell anyone else what that person should consider beautiful. View quote
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If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things. View quote
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As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change. View quote
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The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. View quote
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We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters. View quote
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Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. View quote
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I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory. (Howard Gardner)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart. View quote
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Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture. View quote
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