Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences

Psychologist Howard Gardner Proposed that Everyone Possesses 8 Different

Forms of Intelligence. Each , Relatively Independent of the Other

Everyone to some degree, has musical intelligence. Mozart was performing concerts at age 3, but very few people have that kind of musical ability.

To some extent, we all have logical-mathematical intelligence. Many insights occur after a period of incubation.

Spatial Intelligence is is a skill that artists and architects would need to have to be successful.

Intrapersonal intelligence, or the knowledge of the internal aspects of oneself, access to one’s own feelings and emotions. Socrates said “the unexamined life is not worth living”. People involved with the arts would need such insight.

Body kinesthetic intelligence relates to skills the body uses in athletics, dancing and endeavors requiring

precision such as surgery

Linguistic intelligence involves skills use in the production and uses of

language. Examples would be writers, poets or storytellers.

Interpersonal intelligence would involve skills in interacting with others, awareness of moods, temperaments, motivations, and intentions .

Naturalist intelligence would be the ability to identify and classify patterns in nature. Being able to distinguish nuances between large numbers of similar objects would be an example.