Howard Gardner Quotes

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance.

I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

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.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching.

As one who has taught mathematics at all levels of university instruction, I am well aware of the negative attitude of so many students toward the subject. There are many reasons for this, one of them no doubt being the esoteric, dry way in which we teach the subject. We tend to overwhelm our students with formulas, definitions, theorems, and proofs, but we seldom mention the historical evolution of these facts, leaving the impression that these facts were handed to us, like the Ten Commandments, by some divine authority.

When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

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

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

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

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.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

I think even in American schools, they must be studying in a specialized manner.

SETH said: When the intellect is used properly, it thinks of a goal and automatically sets the body in motion toward it, and automatically arouses the other levels of communication unknown to it, so that all forces work together toward the achievement.

Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don't think it's a bad thing.

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Life will get in the way. Count on it. Be prepared for it. Maintain focus and press on towards your goal.