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Howard Gardner

American developmental psychologist & academic

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  • Momentum4.8
  • United States rank#234
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Born 1943 · age 83United States
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    Born 1943
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Updated 2026-06-11

The psychologist who argued that intelligence isn't one thing but eight—and changed how millions of teachers think about the kids in their classrooms.

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Academics
Country
United States
Country rank
#234
Category rank
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Last updated
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Howard Gardner joined Harvard Project Zero in 1967, a year into his career, and spent the next half-century there studying how minds develop. In 1983 he published Frames of Mind, proposing that intelligence comes in multiple forms—linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and later naturalistic—rather than a single measurable quantity. The idea swept through education, translated into over thirty languages across more than thirty books. He co-directed The Good Project starting in 1995 and held leadership at Project Zero until 2023. He…

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Howard Gardner
said · 2015
Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
— Howard Gardner, cited in: Laurie Myers, ‎Joseph Will (2015), Whole Family Learning: Experiences Living and Teaching In China. p. 16
Howard Gardner
said · 2014
Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.
— Howard Gardner, cited in: Richard L. Daft (2014), The Leadership Experience, p. 273
Howard Gardner
said · 2011
Both science and history are moving targets.
— Howard Gardner (2011), Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter, p. 26-27
Howard Gardner
said · 2009
[E]ven if at the end of the day, the bad guys turn out to be more correct scientifically than I am, life is short, and we have to make choices about how we spend our time.
— "Intelligence: It's not just IQ". Lecture at Rockefeller University, New York, 2009. (At 45:11–31.)
Howard Gardner
said · Mar 2007
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.
— Howard Gardner, "The Ethical Mind," in: Harvard Business Review, March 2007.
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