Howard Gardner
American developmental psychologist & academic · United States · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83
Howard Gardner is read about 413 times a day, in 47 languages.
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Something wrong?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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, Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.
Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.
Both science and history are moving targets.
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About this person
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 retired from teaching in 2019 and published his intellectual memoir A Synthesizing Mind the following year. Gardner knew Jeffrey Epstein, who funded some of his Harvard research; after Epstein's 2006 arrest, Gardner cut ties and refused further donations.
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