As information floods in, you need to connect, understand and evaluate information from disparate sources.ģ)The creating mind. Learn at least one discipline - a ten-year process - or you're "destined to march to someone else's tune."Ģ)The synthesizing mind.
What "minds" does Gardner say you need to master?ġ)The disciplined mind. So without conscious, continuing, multi-disciplinary education, it looks grim for you and your kids. Well, you, for starters, because knowledge is expanding exponentially each year and if you are not actively engaged in some kind of lifelong learning, you are condemning yourself to the glue factory.Īnd, of course, your kids, because as sure as "the children are our future," they must learn to survive in a world far more demanding than ours. Who needs the "five minds" that Gardner discusses in this brief (167 pages), jargon-free book? And we read more closely when the author is Howard Gardner, who has made a career of this subject at Harvard and collected a MacArthur Prize Fellowship along the way. So a book that outlines the kind of smarts the future will require - and reward - automatically merits our attention. In this new world, a college graduate who lacks what Howard Gardner calls "multiple intelligences" will be in the same boat as the high school dropout collecting an hourly wage at Jiffy Lube. No one can say what the human experiment will look like on the other side, but I think we may reasonably conclude this - the badly educated will suffer.Īnd by "suffer" I don't mean the old chart that shows you how much more a college graduate earns over the course of a lifetime than a high school grad. In case you haven't noticed, the world is going through a seismic change.
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