In order for me to 'endorse' an intelligence, I need to carry out lots of research.

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.

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

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

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.

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.

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.