Gardner's Argument Analysis

Humankind has given itself the scientific name homo sapiens (man the wise) because our mental capacities are so important to our everyday lives and our sense of self. Intelligent is ability to think logically and rationally. It can be more generally described as the ability to perceive information, and retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within a given environment.Howard Gardner introduced the concept that encompasses various aspects of intelligence such as language intelligence, logic and common sense and mathematics,music,space,movement,between,human beings,and ingenuity of nature. According to Gardner, intelligence is, “the talent to solve problems or produce products that are considered valuable in one or several cultures.” He stated that intelligence can be described as the combination of psychological and biological characteristics that enable individuals to solve problems or create products that are valued in one or more cultures (Gardner 1999).There is 2 kind of …show more content…
Perhaps the child developed early skills quickly and this would be used to show that the child was clearly, “born genius.In a normal brain, there’s a relative equal split between the long and short connections within our cerebral cortex. Short connections are correlated with our aptitude pertaining to something that interests us, while long connections pertain to our capacity for things outside of these interests. In the brain of a genius, the split between long and short connections usually leans heavily toward one or the