The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

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.

Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.

As a planet, we are at risk of destruction (for example, gradually by the warming of the planet; or rapidly, by nuclear war or a pathogen that gets out of control). And these threats require us to work together, and not just to announce our diversity.

In the United States, if you ask teachers, "Are there children whom we should call 'gifted?'", many if not most will say 'No.' That's the politically correct answer. But if you then ask the teacher to rank order students in terms of how well they paint or write or dance, they'll have little difficulty in doing so.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

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