In the course of heir careers in the American schools of today, most students take hundreds, if not thousands, of tests. They develop skill to a highly calibrated degree in an exercise that will essentially become useless immediately after their last day in school.
—Howard Gardner
Topics: War, Career, Exercise
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
—Howard Gardner
Topics: Music
It’s not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
—Howard Gardner
Topics: Greatness & Great Things, Greatness
If we would just support each other—that’s ninety percent of the problem.
—Howard Gardner
Topics: Problems, Cooperation, Help
Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone’s actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone’s actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone… The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.
—Howard Gardner
Topics: War, Intelligence, Potential, Act
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