Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. The author of more than twenty books and the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and twenty-one honourary degrees, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
"Frames of Mind belongs to an exceedingly small category of books
that have changed the way we think about an essential topic--in
this case human intelligence. It's a testament to the book's
success that today we can hardly remember that, during the long
decades before it was published, the idea of a single kind of
intelligence, measured by I.Q. tests, was conventional wisdom among
educators. Gardner's work has opened previously restricted
opportunities for millions of young Americans."--Nicholas Lemann,
staff writer, New Yorker
"A landmark book. Readers found themselves in its deeply humanistic
message: We can appreciate more in each other and ourselves.
Decades later, this work speaks to new challenges. As machines
claim the right to do more and more of our thinking, it's essential
that we celebrate the full range of our human potential."--Sherry
Turkle, MIT, author of Reclaiming Conversation
"A mark of an important idea is just how hard it is to imagine
being without it. Howard Gardner's notion of multiple intelligences
is just that: For more than forty years, we have recognized that
facility with visual-spatial, logical-mathematical,
musical-rhythmic (and more) were distinct. With decades of use in
education and beyond, how did we ever think (convenience, love of
hierarchy?) that we could stamp people with a single number and
expect that to characterize intelligence? I look forward to the
next decades of these ideas, and to seeing what new forms of
intelligence we will recognize and celebrate."--Peter Galison,
Harvard University
"Because of [Frames of Mind] Gardner is both lionized and exploited
as one of the most famous educational theorists in the world. His
notion of multiple intelligences--including the idea that musical,
athletic, and other talents are separate from, but as important as,
high SAT scores--has inspired scores of books, journal articles,
conferences, and lesson plans for public schools."--Washington
Post
"Howard Gardner has long been a groundbreaking thinker in
psychology. Here he takes a fresh look at his classic Frames of
Mind, a widely cited and impactful work on intelligence. I built my
own thought on Howard's remarkable scholarship. Frames of Mind is a
master class not just in his thinking about excellence, but in
thinking itself."--Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional
Intelligence
"Mention Howard Gardner's name to a growing cadre of educators and
the response verges on the reverence teenagers lavish on a rock
star. The cult of Gardner began...with his book Frames of
Mind....Teachers say he has liberated them from one-size-fits-all
pedagogy and given them a framework to help children develop
individual strengths--as artists, scientists, or just good
citizens."--Newsweek
"The value of Frames of Mind is less in the answers it proposes
than in the problems it poses. They are important problems, and
time spent thinking about them will be time well spent."--New York
Times
"There's a book I recommend for everybody: It's Howard Gardner's
Frames of Mind. It has helped me immensely."--Robert Greene, author
of The 48 Laws of Power
"Timely, wide-reaching and in many ways brilliant....[Gardner's]
effort to bring together the data of neurology, exceptionality
development, and symbolic-cultural skills is not only heroic but it
makes extremely evocative reading."--New York Review of Books
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