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Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

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The original scene: Paris, 1900 – La Belle Epoque. The city fathers approached a psychologist named Alfred Binet with an unusual request. Families were flocking to the city from the provinces, and a good many of their children were having trouble with their schoolwork. Could Binet devise some kind of a measure that would predict which youngsters would succeed and which would fail in the primary grades of Paris schools? As almost everybody knows, Binet

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