October 5, 2014

Multiple Intelligences

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High school teachers talk a lot about Professor Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. But if you are not a high school teacher, you might not be familiar. Here is the basic idea: 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,…