Howard Gardner And Gerald Graff's Analysis

What is intelligence? Is it Intelligence Quotient measures or “common sense”, “street knowledge”, even “the ability to process information properly”. Intelligence not only means being intelligent in a single way, but being intelligent in multiple ways. The works of Howard Gardner and Gerald Graff both elaborate on what it is to be intelligent and how the school system should encourage or make available different strategies for students to truly succeed in school and in life. Although Gerald Graff’s view points have a more relevance in todays approach in teaching, Howard Garner’s theories are better well structured and better to follow in todays school education system. Gerald Graff tells his youth experience of becoming an intellectual. According to Graff, he read many sports magazines before he used his knowledge to argue with his friends, which actually “was more intellectual than school” (Graff ). He argues that teachers today should …show more content…
“Rather, as a species we human beings are better described as having a set of relatively autonomous intelligences” (Gardner ). That means each person has the same amount of intelligences, which are differently developed or, to put it in other words, show diverse conditions. These diverse conditions are accountable for the various talents or weaknesses humans have. Gardner reviews the development of his theory, which maintain every human has different ways in developing an intelligance. Gardner argues that intelligence has to be examined in a broader way. It is not only the ability to “focus on a combination of linguistic and logical intelligences“ (Gardner), but it is the combination and specificity of multi intelligences such as “spatial, bodily- kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist, existential intelligence, and bio psychological potentials”