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Multiple Intelligences

From Multiple Intelligences to Good Work

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  • ABOUT Howard Gardner

    Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Among numerous honors, Gardner received a MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1981. In 2005 and again in 2008 he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world.

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How can you help people be both excellent or expert in an area but also responsible, ethical, moral?       

Click play to listen. Recorded on November 9, 2002.

Gardner juxtaposes his theory of “multiple intelligences” against the western notion that intelligence is a biologically determined entity that can be easily quantified by IQ tests. Rather, the eastern view that one can affect one’s own intelligence seems more accurate to Gardner. He suggests that what makes leaders differ from one another is how they use their intelligence more than the quality of their intelligence.

Gardner explores his recent sociological study of professionals in twelve different occupations in an effort to discover how to increase the constructive use of intelligence, creativity, and leadership. 

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