Multiple Intelligences

For those of you not lucky enough to be high school teachers or possibly work in human resources, you may not be aware of Professor Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Gardner, a long-time Harvard professor, applied his his ivy league mind in the early 1980's to describing what exactly it is that makes people successful at being human beings (noting perhaps, that even at Harvard there were "smart" people that were not able to communicate or "poor" people that were somehow able to pass the admissions testing...etc). His efforts are summarized below:

Obviously, it seems possible from reading skimming this information that there is one more than one a person can present themselves as intelligent.  Educators generally use this information to create lessons that appeal to a large variety of different types of learners. A student who is not interested in reading a passage may be interested in drawing about it, your children may not have ADHD HSD ASTMS, etc, they may simply excel in a type of intelligence that is not measured with normal school testing (but if they have trouble concentrating in school before age 3 you should obviously still get them tested for heavy medication, otherwise what will you talk about with the other parents?). 

What type of intelligence do you think you excel in?  It's interesting that after reading this list, a person can often suffer through a few minutes of introspection and classify themselves better in regard to their intellectual strengths and how they learn.  

You can also take this quiz to help yourself along with your assessment.