Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Paperback – March 29, 2011

Great textbook

The idea of multiple intelligence is incredible! Reading it, I was able to see my giftedness is mathematical-logical. I also realized to be successful, people triangulate through their top three or so intelligences. Just one alone isn’t enough to be successful in the world. And knowing the intelligences, you can look at individuals and see the ones they’re good at and triangulated through.Having said that, it’s an extremely dull read. Wish he would re-write the book for mass consumption. 20% of the book has the value. I’m going to see his other books and see if he’s written one focused just on understanding the intelligences better rather than all this other stuff that’s in this book. I just want to go deep on the intelligences, and get a better understanding of them.

Insightful book with an equally insightful follow up book. Feels like this book didnt get enough praise throughout the following decade after original publication, but I feel like the past 7 years its been a back bone to appreciating the differences of others and how they contribute to society. After finishing this book and its follow up, I was left more hopeful of this world and its people.

Very informative

Get ur thinking cap on

In this book Gardner seeks to change the notion of intelligence as a single inherited trait that can be measured solely by a paper and pencil test such as an IQ test. In this endeavor, he methodically defines several types of autonomous intelligences including linguistic intelligence, musical intelligence, logical-mathematical intelligence, spatial intelligence, bodily-kinesthetic intelligence, and the personal intelligences. These intelligences are common to all of us, where are unique talents develop are from the multiplicities of ways these intelligences can combine.With the first edition printed in 1983, some vocabulary and research used in the analysis might be out of date, yet the principles remain completely relevant. The read maybe technical at times but the conclusions are insightful, and it is worth the effort. Despite the wide growth and application of the framework within education, culturally there is room to improve in identifying talents and supporting growth in areas beyond traditional thoughts about intelligence.

FRAMES OF MIND the theory of multiple intelligences by the author Howard Garner is a book people need to read to reconize the differents ability or IQ ,and the bodily languages from people or them. It deserve 5 stars.

The concepts in the book I agree with, but the vocabulary and writing style is awful. "Overly complicated and unnecessarily confusing.." is how I would describe trying to read this book. The concepts and ideas are not confusing, but the choice of vocabulary used in the book makes no sense. For example, "..search for an essence of humanity has led, with seeming ineluctability, to a focus...". This is a good example of how the entire book reads and feels like the author was writing out of a thesaurus.Unrelated but the book arrived damaged due to poor packaging (soft envelope with no padding), so, overall awful experience with this book. I hope to find a more accessible version of the concepts.