Howard Gardner Argumentative Essay

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A belief that each individual possesses seven distinct and measureable forms of intelligences is a theory called multiple intelligence. Howard Gardner is credited with sharing this theory with the world, but let’s examine the life of Howard Gardner. First, let’s mention that Howard Gardner is a developmental psychologist who was born on July 11, 1943 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Although his initial plan was to study law, he was inspired by the work of Jean Piaget to study developmental psychology. Furthermore, Gardner would attend Harvard College and achieve his goal of performing research in developmental psychology. After spending time working with normal and gifted children and brain damaged adults; Gardner published Frames of Mind in which

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