During the 1980s, I was teaching in Philadelphia’s Quaker school system. Highly regarded for their progressive approach to learning, Friends schools were on the cutting edge of educational reform in ...

Editor’s Note: Jerdine Nolen continues her series on Multiple Intelligences with a discussion of Interpersonal Intelligence. Humans need to connect and bond with one another. Being part of a team or a ...

One of the most respected voices in education reform was once a shy, introspective student from Scranton. A graduate of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston and the University of Harvard, Howard Gardner, Ph.D ...

The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to ...

According to Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, humans have several different ways of processing information, such as spatial, interpersonal and logical-mathematical -- and these ways ...

President Trump once famously said, “I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world.” He also said, “I love the poorly educated.” How Trump views the nature of intelligence through these ...

Did you know that intelligence can be categorized in eight different ways? Dr. Howard Gardner, a developmental psychologist at Harvard, developed the multiple intelligences (MI) theory back in 1983.

Howard Gardner has been a proponent of what he has named "multiple intelligences." Schoolwork typically emphasizes linguistic (of a certain kind) and logico-mathematical skills, developed through ...