Title: Howard Gardner - Wikipedia
Headings: Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner
Contents
Early life
Career
Theory and criticism
Achievements and awards
Personal life
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Gardner retired from teaching in 2019. In 2020, he published his intellectual memoir A Synthesizing Mind. Contents
1 Early life
1.1 Career
1.2 Theory and criticism
2 Achievements and awards
3 Personal life
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links
Early life
Howard Earl Gardner was born July 11, 1943, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Ralph Gardner and Hilde (née Weilheimer) Gardner, German Jewish immigrants who fled Germany prior to World War II. Gardner described himself as "a studious child who gained much pleasure from playing the piano". Although Gardner never became a professional pianist, he taught piano from 1958 to 1969. Education was of the utmost importance in the Gardner home. While his parents had hoped that he would attend Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, Gardner opted to attend a school closer to his hometown in Pennsylvania, Wyoming Seminary. Gardner had a desire to learn and greatly excelled in school. Career
Gardner in his earlier years
Gardner graduated from Harvard College in 1965 with an BA in social relations, and studied under the renowned Erik Erikson. After spending one year at the London School of Economics, he went on to obtain his PhD in developmental psychology at Harvard while working with psychologists Roger Brown and Jerome Bruner, and philosopher Nelson Goodman.