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Essay on A Comment on Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner is an educational industry. He is available on video cassette explaining his theory of multiple intelligence in a set of three videos. Nearly two dozen groups and individuals offer workshops on applying multiple intelligence theory to classroom settings, including the prestigious educational administrator organization, Phi Delta Kappa, which offers workshops to teachers throughout the country entitled "Teaching for Multiple Intelligences: Seven Ways of Knowing," through its Center for Professional Development. There is a bimonthly magazine entitled Provoking Thoughts devoted to multiple intelligence theory (MI). Also there are three newsletters on MI as well. There is even a card game with exercises in which one can develop each of one's intelligences called Provoking Thoughts Game.
Gardner has achieved God-like status among educators, being a fixture at educational conferences and a member of national reform commissions. He responded to this adulation in the pages of Phi Delta Kappan, the bible of educational administrators, by saying that he "was unprepared for the large and mostly positive reaction to the theory among educators .taking pleasure from--and was occasionally moved by--the many attempts to institute an MI approach to education in the schools and classrooms.
Moreover, Gardner is a crossover intellectual. He is easily recognized by both worlds of his own academic discipline of psychology and the literate public at large--much like his intellectual subjects in Leading Minds, Margaret Mead, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The radical journal, Mother Jones, in its twentieth anniversary issue, selected him as one of twenty public intellectuals to comment on the future of America along with other culture heroes such as William F. Buckley, Betty Friedan, Camille Paglia, and Maya Angelou. He was the first of a half dozen intellectuals to christen the New York Times "Think Tank" series; Gardner's contribution...............
