Sixteen-year-old Jason is a junior chess champion .He is a good student whose favourite school subject is maths. His fifteen year old sister Jennifer is very good at woodwork. She often gets into trouble at school because she finds it hard to sit quietly for a long time. Conclusion- Jason is intelligent, Jennifer is not. Right?
Wrong According to psychologist Howard Gardner of the Harvard Graduate school, the traditional view of intelligence as a uniform capacity to solve problems and think logically
is not only unfair to those who haven't got it, it is incorrect.
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory states that there are different intelligences which can work individually or together with others. In his book 'Frames of Mind' Gardner mentioned seven types (see opposite).