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
important use narrative
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
travel hussein want
Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.
school kids skills
Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are.
years different twenties
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.
educational united-states 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.
book topics abandoned
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
book would-be psychologist
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
problem ability solve
The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
culture problem ability
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture.
mind natural entity
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
appreciation maturity approach
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
educational teaching knowing
If Confucius can serve as the Patron Saint of Chinese education, let me propose Socrates as his equivalent in a Western educational context - a Socrates who is never content with the initial superficial response, but is always probing for finer distinctions, clearer examples, a more profound form of knowing. Our concept of knowledge has changed since classical times, but Socrates has provided us with a timeless educational goal - ever deeper understanding.
opportunity parent environmental
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.
education impact important
In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.