The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts Standardized Tests K 12 educ that Every Child Deserves - Softcover

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Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education and an adjunct professor of psychology at Harvard University; an adjunct professor of neurology at the Boston School of Medicine; and the codirector of Project Zero at Harvard University. The recipient of many honors, including 16 honorary degrees, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, Gardner is the author of 18 books and several hundred articles. In 1990 he became the first American to receive the University of Louisville's Grawemeyer Award in education. Married to psychologist Ellen Winner and the father of four children, Gardner lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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WHAT -- AND HOW -- SHOULD WE BE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN?

In The Disciplined Mind, Howard Gardner, the brilliant educator who revolutionized our thinking with his theory of multiple intelligences, offers a controversial and far-reaching work on the goals of education. His argument -- aimed at parents, educators, and the general public alike -- is that K-12 education should enhance a deep understanding of three principles: truth, beauty, and goodness. Gardner explores how teaching students three subjects -- the theory of evolution, the music of Mozart, and the lessons of the Holocaust -- would illuminate the nature of truth, beauty, and morality.

Far from the fact-based, standardized-test mentality that has gripped both policy makers and the public, Gardner envisions an educational system that will help younger generations rise to the challenges of the future, while preserving the traditional goals of a "humane" education.