[LOCUTOR]

Track seventeen, unit eight, think outside the box

[HOWARD GARDNER]

Right, well, let's get become concrete. About forty-five years ago, uh, I was given the opportunity to put together all of the work that I had done, and research done by hundreds of scholars all over the world, about the intellect. And, uh, and the result of this five years of work, I wrote a four-hundred-page book called Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences. And in that book, I tried to describe what led me to the conclusion that the human mind is better explained in terms of our having a number of relatively independent computers in our skull, rather than having a single one. And this relates to intelligence, because if you think intelligence is a singular thing, that if a person is smart, he or she will be smart in everything. If they're average, he or she would be average in everything. And if they don't do well in whatever measurements you have, then there'll be dumb in everything. That doesn't make much, uh, common sense because we all know people who are good in some things, average in others, and not good in third things. But what I did was pull together information from biology, genetics, brain science, anthropology, psychology, sociology, history, and, uh, wrote this four-hundred-page book.