Part C

Have you ever met someone that was smart but always seemed to do poorly in school? Howard Gardner believes that it is because in school only two of the many intelligences are tested. He suggests that there are actually seven different intelligences: lingustics, locical math, spatial, musical, bodily-kenesthetic, intrapersonal and interpersonal. He suggests alternate forms of teaching and discovering what the student is good at. "Instead of looking at a child and saying, 'He's smart' or 'He's dumb,' people wouild talk in terms of a child's strength and weaknesses." He also suggested we dispose of standardized testing and aptitude tests because they are too often used to assess our future successes in "the real world". "How much does doing well in school predict success outside of school? Very little" I love that Howard Gardner a Professor at a highly esteemed Ivy league school, Harvard University, can admit that testing in school provides us with a false sense of a students intelligence.