I Reject The Notion That

Intelligence Is The Ability To Find And Solve Problems And Create Products Of Value In One's Own Culture.

Much Of The Material Presented In Schools Strikes Students As Alien, If Not Pointless.

I Need To Add That My Work On Multiple Intelligences Received A Huge Boost In 1995 When Daniel Goleman Published His Book On Emotional Intelligence. I Am Often Confused With Dan. Initially, Though Dan And I Are Longtime Friends, This Confusion Irritated Me.

We Should Spend Less Time Ranking Children And More Time Helping Them To Identify Their Natural Competencies And Gifts And Cultivate These. There Are Hundreds And Hundreds Of Ways To Succeed And Many, Many Different Abilities That Will Help You Get There.

Emile Zola Was A Poor Student At His School At Aix. We Are All So Different Largely Because We All Have Different Combinations Of Intelligences. If We Recognize This, I Think We Will Have At Least A Better Chance Of Dealing Appropriately With Many Problems That We Face In The World.