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Education is at a turning point
The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better
Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Beauty reveals itself in the course of an experience with an object.
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
In the United States these days, 'diversity' is a big word and a buzzword.
Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.
Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
As history unfolds, as cultures evolve, of course the intelligences which they value change.
To ask "Where in your brain is intelligence?" is like asking "Where is the voice in the radio?"
You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
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.
We can enhance our intelligences, but I am never going to become Yo-Yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Pele.
Since we all have different cognitive profiles, educators should take those individual differences very seriously.
I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.
Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth.
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Contradictory precepts that have guided me for as long as I can remember: 1: I will live forever. 2: I will die tomorrow.
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
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
I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals.
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
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.
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
I am trained as a psychologist, and I think of all human issues in terms of psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and evolutionary theory.
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.
Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.
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.
Students should learn about the long-standing values of truth, beauty, and goodness, think hard about them, and interrogate them skillfully.
I think that I am strongest in linguistic and musical intelligence, and I continue to work on my interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence.
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.
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.
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.
Truth is about propositions. When it comes to determining truth, it is vital to understand the methods used by individuals in asserting propositions.
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.
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.
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.