Howard Gardner, "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Synthesizing for Kids
Howard Kurtz: I think for young kids as the uh an instrument like that we'd say who's got stuff stored but can activate it for other than the usual purpose now all that would show is whether the child has some aptitude for synthesizing. Warren Buffett, George Soros, true outstanding financiers, both billionaires were born in the same year in the same month. Both have a huge amount of information they're in but they go about synthesizing very differently. He says if you wanted to teach every child should learn synthesizing or because the child had a lot of potential for that then you would help them to write things which involve synthesis.
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