Gardner



Name: Howard Earl Gardner

Birthday: July 11, 1943

Birthplace: Scranton, Pennsylvania

This day in history (in location): [|World War II] created a great demand for energy, which led to more [|strip mining] in the area.

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Educational Background: Harvard College, 1961–1965; A.B. in Social Relations London School of Economics, 1965–1966; Reading in Philosophy and Sociology Harvard University, 1966–1971; Ph.D. in Social Psychology (Developmental Psychology) Harvard Medical School and Boston University Aphasia Research Center, 1971–1972; Postdoctoral Fellow CURRENT POSITIONS John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (1998–present) Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (1986–1998) Adjunct Professor of Psychology, Harvard University (1991–present) Chair, Project Zero Steering Committee (1995–present); Co-Director, Project Zero (1972–2000); Senior Director (2000–present).

Family Background: Gardner is married to Ellen Winner. They have one child, Benjamin, born in 1985. Gardner has three children from an earlier marriage: Kerith (1969), Jay (1971) and Andrew (1976) and two grandchildren, Oscar, born in 2005, and Agnes, born in 2011. Gardner described himself as "a studious child who gained much pleasure from playing the piano". [|[11]] He is also currently a board member at Amherst College and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He served on the board of the Spencer Foundation for 10 years (2001-2011).

Quotations 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.

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.

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.

Anything that is worth teaching can be presented in many different ways. These multiple ways can make use of our 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.

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.