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. Howard Gardner More Quotes by Howard Gardner More Quotes From Howard Gardner 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. Howard Gardner focus want needs Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love. Howard Gardner marriage love fall 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 environmental parent opportunity 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. Howard Gardner individual skills math 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 college kids school Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals. Howard Gardner judging-people tunes way 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. Howard Gardner very-good zero judging Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system. Howard Gardner teaching children reality 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 musical tasks school 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 Howard Gardner appreciate cutting children 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. Howard Gardner information order culture The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings. Howard Gardner solve ability problem No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. Howard Gardner taken writing inspirational 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. Howard Gardner mean hands ideas 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. Howard Gardner musical believe years Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful? Howard Gardner technology goal teacher There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth. Howard Gardner scholarly method discipline A person who is app-dependent is always searching for the best app; and as soon as its routine has been executed, the person searches for the next app. A person who is app-enabled also uses apps frequently. But he or she is never limited by the current array of apps; apps will free the person to do what he or she wants to do, or needs to do, irrespective of the next application of the app. An app-enabled person can also put devices away, without feeling bereft. Howard Gardner next want feelings 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. Howard Gardner goal way thinking Most people (by the time they have become adults ) can't change their minds because their neural pathways have become set... the longer neural pathways have been running one way the harder it is to rewire them. Howard Gardner mind running people
