For several decades, Harvard University psychologist Howard Gardner has researched the human mind, studying how it develops and how it is organized. Although you may not be familiar with his name, you are probably familiar with his breakthrough notion that we have multiple intelligences - eight or nine of them - such as linguistic, spatial, bodily, musical and intrapersonal, rather than just the traditional cognitive capacity measured by IQ tests. Now, he is back with a different theory, trying to lay down the minds, or types of thinking, we will need to operate successfully in the future.... Prof. Gardner believes we must recognize the ways of thinking required for our emerging era of science, technology and globalization - and educating ourselves and our children accordingly.

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