Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner
Howard Earl Gardneris an American developmental psychologist and the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education at Harvard University. He is currently the senior director of Harvard Project Zero, and since 1995, he has been the co-director of the Good Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth11 July 1943
CountryUnited States of America
Howard Gardner quotes about
children mind world
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
believe slave workers
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.
smart matter
It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart.
thinking hands people
But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.
children different way
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.
teaching use way
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
inspirational education mistake
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.
considered good moving people school smart symbols theory
I often find that entrepreneurs think my theory is great. My interpretation is that they are people who weren't considered that smart in school because they didn't have good notation skills-you know, moving little symbols around.