Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Um, well, you know, I have a master's in speech pathology, and I, um, was terrible in school.

And I bumped into the book, uh, by Howard Gardner, Frames of Mind, and I realized we all learn differently and that the brain is more different than fingerprints.

So, um, all of a sudden I realized I was a genius, and everybody is.

And so I sold that book all over the country to nursing programs, and then I got called by Special Olympics.

Well, I know from your advanced questions and from what you said, Howard, that Everybody here is aware of multiple intelligences.

In fact, probably a lot of people here could list the original seven that appeared in Frames of Mind in 1983.

But I bet also that a lot of people wouldn't be able to describe why that book had such impact.

And I think it's because of the superstructure, substructure that justified those intelligences.

And so this really stepped on the toes of many, many people.

And there are almost no psychometricians, people who do measuring of the mind, who buy multiple intelligences.

But when they say that to me, I say, have you ever read Frames of Mind? And then that just stops the silence.

That brings silence because I have 400 pages of evidence for these different intelligences.