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Howard Gardner Quotes

born 1943 United States

Howard Earl Gardner (born July 11, 1943) is an American developmental psychologist, known for his theory of multiple intelligences. He is the John H. and Elisabeth A.

United States
Non-fiction authors
Psychologists

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Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader's arsenal.

Richard L. Daft (2014)

I myself do not condone investigations of racial differences in intelligence, because I think that the results of these studies are likely to be incendiary.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences.

Laurie Myers, ‎Joseph Will (2015)

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.

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.

Howard Gardner (1983)

The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all children as if they were variants of the same individual, and thus to feel justified in teaching them the same subjects in the same ways.

There is very little dispute about the principal constituent elements of music, though experts will differ on the precise definitions of each aspect. Most central are 'pitch' (or melody) and 'rhythm'... next in importance only to pitch and rhythm is 'timbre', the characteristic qualities of tone.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Howard Gardner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.