124 Quotes by Howard Gardner

We’ve got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You’ve got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

Extraordinary individuals fail often and sometimes dramatically. Rather than giving up, however, they are challenged to learn from their setbacks and to convert defeats into opportunities.

To ask “Where in your brain is intelligence?” is like asking “Where is the voice in the radio?”

When Einstein had thought through a problem, he always found it necessary to formulate this subject in as many different ways as possible and to present it so that it would be comprehensible to people accustomed to different modes of thought and with different educational preparations.

I think that physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. Once you are sophisticated, you know too much-far too much.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It’s like falling in love.

I want my children to understand the world, but not just because the world is fascinating and the human mind is curious. I want them to understand it so that they will be positioned to make it a better place.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader’s toolkit.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body’s immune system.