Gardner's theory (1985) proposes different and autonomous intelligence capacities that result in many different ways of knowing, understanding, and learning about our world. As an L2 educator, it has been important for me to get away from defining intelligence in terms of tests and correlations among tests and begin to look more seriously at how people around the world develop skills important to their lives. I am reminded of a wonderful book titled The Education of Little Tree (Carter 1991), which deals with the difference between the skills that are considered intelligent and valued in the Native American Indian culture and the culture of the "white man" in the United States. Both groups valued a different set of skills and judged intelligent behavior in different ways. As Gardner (1993:15) states: It is of the utmost importance that we recognize and nurture all of the varied human intelligences, and all of the combinations of intelligences. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems we face in the world.