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. Howard Gardner More Quotes by Howard Gardner More Quotes From Howard Gardner Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for us. Howard Gardner kind decision mind We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds Howard Gardner entity natural mind I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. Howard Gardner degrees luck world 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 narrative important use No individual can be in full control of his fate-our strengths come significantly from our history, our experiences largely from the vagaries of chance. But by seizing the opportunity to leverage and frame these experiences, we gain agency over them. And this heightened agency, in turn, places us in a stronger position to deal with future experiences, even as it may alter our own sense of strengths and possibilities. Howard Gardner fate agency opportunity By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. Howard Gardner optimist ifs trying The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. Howard Gardner online community people A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to guide us and we probably evolved to be sensitive to Bible-Golden Rule situations. But the dilemmas faced by a worker - a journalist, an architect, an auditor - or by a citizen (what position to take on stem cell research, whether to run for office, what is the proper balance between taxation and social nets) - are not questions that can be answered by traditional texts or precedents. Howard Gardner cells office running 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. Howard Gardner divergent truth-is beautiful Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object. Howard Gardner objects courses 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. Howard Gardner diversity risk war The wonderful thing about the theater is that it can emphasize BOTH our diversity AND our common humanity. In many ways, the world of Shakespeare (or Aeschylus or Racine) is totally different from our world; and yet any human being can look through the differences in dress and mores and discover our common problems, passions, and potentials. Howard Gardner common-humanity passion differences 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. Howard Gardner philosophical technology thinking A continuing conversation with other persons, with cultural products, and with oneself, is a large part of what it means to be a human being, in our time and perhaps in all time. Howard Gardner all-time conversation mean In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword. Howard Gardner diversity united-states bigs Distinguish between the work and the job title. When I was leaving school in the early 1970s, many people wanted to be journalists, carrying out investigative reporting for print newspapers. Print newspapers may not exist in twenty years. But good thinking and good writing about issues that need to be reported and investigated will always be needed; but where this happens, what it is called, and who pays for it may be quite different than could have been envisioned by the great journalists of the past. Howard Gardner writing jobs school 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. Howard Gardner energy reflection special In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research. Howard Gardner research order needs I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence. Howard Gardner interpersonal musical thinking I want to understand how best to create and preserve a form of higher education that we value but that is in jeopardy for many reasons. Howard Gardner form reason want
