Who Is Howard Gardner's Frames Of Mind?

Would you consider yourself a smart person? When posing the question inward, I am immediately reminded of test scores. It was all that my peers could talk about senior year of high school. What you got on your SAT’s and usually the first question would answer the second, what college you would attend? Now almost a decade later looking back on it, I feel that people are a lot smarter than those tests where letting on. Who’s to say that since numbers to me appear as a foreign language that I’m not intelligent? Or to find the meaning of Shakespeare’s plays would be like finding a needle in a haystack so I must not be intelligent. In 1983 Howard Gardner wrote a book entitled Frames of Mind. In it he explores not only the intelligence traditionally assessed by the SAT’s, which are
His family had fled Nazi Germany five years prior. Due to the untimely death of this brother Eric, in a sleighing accident, Howard was persuaded away from athletic activities by his parents. His was always a very studious adolescent and he headed off to Harvard in September of 1961 and says, “I loved Harvard; it was an Elysian field for the mind.” (Gardner 2006) Howard Gardner has been a research psychologist for over thirty-five years now and has dove into an assortment of topics such as breakdowns after brain damage as well as cognitive development in gifted children. What he may be best known for is his many books; one in particular was the reason behind my own research. Frames of Mind was Gardeners’ introduction to the world of his theory of multiple intelligence. What some believe is one of the most remarkable features of his theory of multiple intelligences is how it “provides eight different potential pathways to learning”. (Armstrong 1994) Teaching children using all eight pathways isn’t the answer. They are used individually as well as together to choose the most effective way to teach