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© Howard Gardner 2026 Dating back to adolescence, I have loved going to the theater—seeing works of drama as well as what are generally called “musicals.”

© Howard Gardner 2026 Widely and mostly positively reviewed, Helen Lewis’s book The Genius Myth seeks to debunk the notion of genius—at least the view of genius as a person who possesses special—perhaps indeed unique—powers, abilities, capacities, insight…

© Howard Gardner 2026 In my life, I’ve read a lot of books.

‍‍© Howard Gardner 2026 Williams College sculpture of Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other Though I’d be considered conservative on many educational matters, that would not accurately describe my views about the role in education of…

© Howard Gardner 2026 Harvard Yard It’s the beginning of my 66th year at Harvard.

‍© Howard Gardner 2026 ‍ ‍ When I was a beginning doctoral student in psychology—sixty years ago—there was a relatively sharp line between two kinds of research.

© Howard Gardner 2026 “Opa,” my ten-year-old granddaughter Faye said, in a questioning tone.

A Case Study of Research in Education © Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner 2026 In ordinary communication, impact has two principal connotations: from physics, the force of a collision of two bodies; from human relations, how words or expressions affect our…

© Howard Gardner 2026 I’ve casually asserted that one could build an entire curriculum around Finding Your Roots—the title and theme of Henry Louis Gates’ well-received series on PBS.

© Howard Gardner 2026 Perhaps in every era—or at least in many eras—reflective individuals wonder whether their era is special—disruptive, and if so, in which benign or malevolent ways.

© Howard Gardner 2026 Over the last few years, I have written and posted hundreds of blogs, covering a very wide range of topics.

© Howard Gardner 2025 Around 1975, I fell in love with children’s museums.

© Howard Gardner 2025 If you know the name Marshall McLuhan it’s likely for one of two reasons: He coined the powerful phrase, “the medium in the message.”

An Ambitious Contemporary Effort © Howard Gardner 2025 If you want a list of all the things that I am not good at, I can launch it…and my family and friends can add to it generously.

© Howard Gardner 2025 I don’t travel anymore.

Mention the year 1945 to an historically-knowledgeable person—it’s likely immediately to evoke thoughts of “war” as well as “peace”.

Howard Gardner © 2025 Some necessary background Harvard Magazine Cover, September - October, 1990.

When I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania in the 1950s, Dwight David Eisenhower—universally known as “Ike”—was the two-term president (1953-1961).

I was very pleased that my recent blog, “Five Minds…Rethinking Education in the Era of AI General Intelligence” elicited comments and—with me largely in the background—a rather vigorous exchange among three individuals: my wife Ellen Winner (Emerita Profe…