”Educate for multiple intelligences”　

Gregory Strong Special to The Daily Yomiuri

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“Psychology really has had two big impacts on society,” Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner told a packed lecture room at Teachers College, Columbia University, Tokyo on June 8. “The first has been in advertising–mind manipulation–and the other has been intelligence testing.”

Gardner, who was on a weeklong speaking tour in Tokyo, criticized the traditional view of intelligence as that of a single factor, largely inherited and about which one can do little. The award-winning 59-year-old professor of cognition and education traced the development of standardized IQ testing from its turn-of-the-century origins to its present dominance of education in the United States. He described how this narrow view of thinking often left people with the idea that there was not much they could do to improve themselves. He contrasted that with the view of intelligence in Asia.