We Can Enhance Our Intelligences, But I

Now Intelligence Seemed Quantifiable. You Could Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Height, And Now, It Seemed, You Could Also Measure Someone's Actual Or Potential Intelligence. We Had One Dimension Of Mental Ability Along Which We Could Array Everyone... The Whole Concept Has To Be Challenged; In Fact, It Has To Be Replaced.

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.

While Truth Is Ultimately Convergent, Beauty Is Ultimately Divergent. No One Can And No One Should Tell Anyone Else What That Person Should Consider Beautiful.

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.

When Speaking To Parents, I Encourage Them To Take Their Child(ren) To A Children's Museum And Watch Carefully What The Child Does, How She/she Does It, What He/she Returns To, Where There Is Definite Growth. Teachers Could Do The Same Or Could Set Up 'play Areas' Which Provide 'nutrition' For Different Intelligences... And Watch Carefully What Happens And What Does Not Happen With Each Child.