The Goal of Education is to Help People Use Their Minds Better

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.

It may well be easier to remember a list if one sings it (or dances to it). However, these uses of the 'materials' of an intelligence are essentially trivial. What is not trivial is the capacity to think musically.

All human beings have all of the intelligences. But we differ, for both genetic and experiential reasons, in our profile of intelligences at any moment.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

Teaching which ignores the realities of children will be rejected as surely as any graft which attempts to ignore the body's immune system.

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.