Chpater 1 MI: The Foundations of MI Theory

In this first chapter of Multiple Intelligences, the one thing that I learned from Gardner was that intelligence isn’t, and shouldn’t be measured with and IQ test. I really liked the thing that Gardner himself said, which involved intelligence measurement being put on a pedestal, and how it only focuses on one form of intelligences. So therefore, his multiple intelligences theory proves that there are different types of intelligences, and that you can’t measure someone’s intelligence based on one test alone. Reading this was comforting for me, because I’m definitely one of those people who’s more of a linguistic and interpersonal, and not so much when it comes to things dealing with math and spatial. Knowing that it’s okay for me to be better in one topic than another. Another thing I learned was that I could adapt myself to becoming all of the 8 kinds of learners, and not have to be so closed off to the couple that I am already naturally like.