MI After Twenty Years

MI After Twenty Years, Howard Gardner.
It was very interesting to read that when Howard Gardner called his book the Frames of Mind that he caused such a stir against the establishment that cherishes the IQ test, because to me his multiple intelligences are broder and wider and deeper than just an IQ test. I suppose also on a personal level I had an IQ test performed on me when I was quite young in primary school and they told me that I had well below the average IQ for my age. That really undermined my learning capacity for most of my life. It wasn't until I went to uni in my fourties that I started to overcome my insecurities about my learning abilities. Then very recently my son was diagnosed with learning problems and since he has been in therapy I have found out that I have some difficulties of my own. I guess if Gardners Multiple Inteligences had been used when I was in school I might have attempted a university degree a lot earlier in my life.
Now! I realize that we all have these wonderful intelligences, some are stronger than others and of course these will all develope differently depending on, Physiological factors, psychological factors and enviromental factors. This is an enlightening piece to read because we are not discussing what has already been well reasearched and documented, but what is also an ongoing development of other (as yet not completely defined) intelligences. The very fact that Howard Gardner still searchs for clearer ways to help us understand the way the mind works is an encouragment for the questions that still need to be answered.
I am glad there are people like Howard Gardner who have this much higher intelligence that mine to ask these questions and seek the answers, because people like me can then have a chance to understand our own processes of learning, and then we have the ideas of how we should help the students in our classes learn through a variety of ways. They can then present information they have learnt in a way mostsatisfyinh to themselves, or learn through variety of different styles aimed at each of the different intelligence groups.
Another important aspect of these Intelligences is that it gives educators a great basis for creating great projects for the students to get involved with at school. I see this with my own children when they have a teacher who does utilise the multiple intelligences into the structure of how the children present their research and findings, my own kids embrace the project and get excited about what they are learning and how they can show what they have learnt.