Title: Howard Gardner Biography and Theories
Headings: Howard Gardner Biography and Theories
Howard Gardner Biography and Theories
Brief Biography of Howard Gardner
Career and Theories
Howard Gardener's Awards
Selected Publications
Multiple Intelligences vs. Learning Styles
A Word From Verywell

Content: Gardner's theory had a particular impact in the field of education where it inspired teachers and educators to explore new ways of teaching aimed at these different intelligences. 1 ﻿
"We have this myth that the only way to learn something is to read it in a textbook or hear a lecture on it. And the only way to show that we've understood something is to take a short-answer test or maybe occasionally with an essay question thrown in. But that's nonsense. Everything can be taught in more than one way," Howard Gardner has suggested. 2 ﻿
Brief Biography of Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner was born on July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He described himself as "a studious child who gained much pleasure from playing the piano." He completed his post-secondary education at Harvard, earning his undergraduate degree in 1965 and his Ph.D. in 1971. 3 ﻿
While he had originally planned to study law, he was inspired to study developmental psychology by the works of Jean Piaget. He also cited the mentoring he received from the famous psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as part of the reason why he set his sights on psychology.