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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

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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)

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.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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