124 Quotes by Howard Gardner

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it’s Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don’t seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn’t have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

We need to focus on the kind of human beings we want to have and the kind of society in which we want to live.

Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

Education is at a turning point.

While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It’s often called the culture of the organization.

If I know you’re very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you’re going to be good or bad in other things.

He knows everything but he lacks inexperience.