1260: Howard Gardner
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/31
1983
“There is very little dispute about the principal constituent elements of music: rhythm, melodic/rhythmic contour, and tonal‑harmonic pattern.”
1991
“We’ve got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage.”
1993
“When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible.”
1995
“If I were to rewrite Frames of Mind today, I would probably add an eighth intelligence — the intelligence of the naturalist.”
1999
“An a priori decision to eliminate spiritual intelligence from consideration is no more justifiable than a decision to admit it by fiat or on faith.”
“While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end.”
2001
“Few things in life are as enjoyable as when we concentrate on a difficult task, using all our skills, knowing what has to be done.”
2004
“They reflect common sense or — as my mentor Nelson Goodman used to quip — common nonsense.”
“Influential thinkers in the West have done an admirable job of cleaving apart excellence in technique from distinction in morality.”
2006
“Knowledge of facts is a useful ornament but a fundamentally different undertaking than thinking in a discipline.”
2007
“Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity.”
“Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It’s like falling in love.”
2013
“New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self‑expression. But yoking one’s identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies — and lacking the time, opportunity, or inclination to explore life and lives offline — may result in an impoverished sense of self.”
“Will this be on the exam? The nuts‑and‑bolts version is, ‘Just tell us what you want and we will give it to you.’”
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