Howard Gardner Quotes

With each individual, everybody takes instructions in a different way.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

People learn in different ways: reading, listening, pictures, watching.

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

When we teach in pluralistic ways, there are two wonderful dividends. First of all, we reach more students, because some learn best through stories, some through works of art, some through role play etc. Second of all, we show what it is like really to understand something.

The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Education is education, be it verbal or written.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

It is a well known fact that a man learns best that which he endeavors to teach others.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

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.

Schools teach the need to be taught.

We can teach only if we are willing to learn.

I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?