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"The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way."
"We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there."
"Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our multiple intelligences."
"It's not how smart you are that matters, what really counts is how you are smart."
"But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education."
"You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in."
"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"
"What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects that they can get excited about and work on over long periods of time, to be stimulated to find things out on their own."
"If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave."
"The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better"
"Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one's own culture."
"Kids make their mark in life by doing what they can do, not what they can't... School is important, but life is more important. Being happy is using your skills productively, no matter what they are."
"All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment."
"While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses."
"Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding."
"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
"Intelligences are enhanced when a person is engaged in activities that involve the exercise of that intelligence. It helps to have good teachers, ample resources, and personal motivation. Anyone can improve any intelligence; but it is easier to improve the intelligence if those factors are available and if you have high potential in that intelligence."
"When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments."
"Young children possess the ability to cut across the customary categories; to appreciate usually undiscerned links among realms, to respond effectively in a parallel manner to events which are usually categorized differently, and to capture these ori"
"If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance."