No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field.
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.
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.
If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.
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.
Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.
To ask “Where in your brain is intelligence?” is like asking “Where is the voice in the radio?”
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.
Education is at a turning point.
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.
Much of the material presented in schools strikes students as alien, if not pointless.
Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck – both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not.
While I’ve worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences.
I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Intelligence is the ability to find and solve problems and create products of value in one’s own culture.
Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.