I think that one of the best persons who makes a revolution in education and shakes all spheres of the society is Howard Gardner because he made a revolution with his theory of multiple intelligence.
He said that people don’t have a general intelligence. He states that we have many different ways to learn and process information because these are independent each other
Intelligence is not a unity that we can measure with a number like the C.I.
In the Garner’s theory we find eight kinds of intelligence as linguistic, logic-mathematical, musical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal and intrapersonal.
That means that if we are not very good at mathematics, for example, that’s not because of our poor intelligence; It is because we have other intelligence more developed than logic-mathematical. We must be happy because we are good for other things that can be problematic for other person.
In education this theory changes all that we know until now. In the classroom we must pay attention to the difference in children to improve the result. Teachers have to try to understand different learning processes to promote meaningful learning.
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