In the 1980’s Gardner, a long-time Harvard professor, applied his his Ivy League mind to describing the different ways people convey ideas. As a result, he classified the major types of communication. To this day, his ideas are widely celebrated and used in the education philosophy classes. His efforts are summarized below:
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences
What it means
There is more than one way a person can present themselves as intelligent. As a result, educators use more than one method for teaching.
A student who is not interested in reading a passage may be interested in drawing about it. Your children may not have ADHD HSD ASTMS, etc, they may simply excel in naturalism. (But if they have trouble concentrating you should obviously still get them tested for medication. Otherwise what will you talk about with the other parents?).
What type of intelligence do you think you excel in?
Visual? (Check out this post about the Prado)
Verbal? (Check out this post about over-sharing, a twenty-something superpower)
It’s interesting that after reading this list, a person can often suffer through a few minutes of introspection and classify themselves better in regard to their intellectual strengths and how they learn. You can also take this quiz to help yourself along with your assessment.