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Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)

New Books in Psychology

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Is There Such a Thing as Teaching Intelligence?

There's a psychological experiment that was just done and I write about it in this forthcoming blog which will be on my website multiple intelligences oasis.org where it turns out that people are good at something aren't necessarily being good teachers. You can take two people or people they could file this and one of them is a great teacher the other one can't teach anybody anything so if you if you I guess to go back to your question if you have somebody who's a very good synthesizer you want to know whether they're a good teacher because they might be great at doing synthesizing but lousy at teaching it. Elena: Where are you headed to in the future well three years from now

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