Howard Gardner quotes - page 2

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment. (Howard Gardner)
The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better. View quote
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What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own. View quote
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If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance. View quote
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Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence. View quote
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Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are. View quote
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Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love. View quote
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An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation. View quote
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We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live. View quote
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We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it. View quote
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What is usually called 'intelligence' refers to the linguistic and logical capacities that are valued in certain kinds of school and for certain school-like tasks. It leaves little if any room for spatial intelligence, personal intelligences, musical intelligence, etc. (Howard Gardner)
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding. View quote
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If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them. View quote
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Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals. View quote
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Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori. View quote
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Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. View quote
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An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture. View quote
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I don't think that it is necessary to rethink curricular goals. But it is certainly worth thinking about whether these goals can be reached in multiple ways. View quote
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Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously. View quote
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I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes. View quote
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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. (Howard Gardner)
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. View quote
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No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. View quote
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The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings. View quote
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There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth. View quote
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