Howard Gardner Quotes

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

Brain, Different, Language

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
Howard Gardner

Powerful, Single, Leader

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.
Howard Gardner

Family, Best, Learning

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner

Music, Good, Bad

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.
Howard Gardner

Important, Someone, Words

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

Time, Knowledge, Important

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

Different, Worth, Ways

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
Howard Gardner

Nature, Try, Act

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.
Howard Gardner

Parents, Whatever, Almost

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
Howard Gardner

Enough, Luck, Both

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.
Howard Gardner

Work, Emotional, Book

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.
Howard Gardner

Work, Good, Rather

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.
Howard Gardner

Truth, True, Anyone

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.
Howard Gardner

Positive, School, Care

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board.
Howard Gardner

America, Why, Creativity

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
Howard Gardner

Young, Biggest, Online

Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Howard Gardner

Book, Audience, Principal

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.
Howard Gardner

Different, Problems, Wrong

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
Howard Gardner

While, Books, Interest

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: July 11, 1943

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