Howard Gardner Quotes

Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Illiteracy must be banished from the land.

I think literacy is everything.

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

Few things are as essential as education.

All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

There is no single way to educate.

Reading taught me how to write.

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Schooling is so important.