Yolanda U. Trapp
Introduction
Western society has always put great stress on intelligences and intellectual development. But what is intelligence? Since the early 1900s. the I. Q. test has been regarded as the best measurement of an individual's potential and possible role in society. Howard Gardner in his book "Frame of Mind", The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" (1983), puts forth a new and different view of human intellectual competencies. He argues boldly and cogently that we are all born with potential to develop a multiplicity of Intelligences, most of which have been overlooked in our testing society, and all of which can be drawn upon to make us component individuals. The potential for musical accomplishments, bodily mastery, and spatial reasoning, and the capacities to understand ourselves as well as others, are, Gardner argues, "the multiple forms of intelligence that we must add to the conventional - and typical tested - logical and linguistic skills long called I.Q."
Drawing on many years of research in cognitive psychology and neuro-psychology, and pulling together information from the widest range of sources, Gardner suggests that the multiple forms of intelligences can be mobilized by society to achieve a greater diversity of ends and to fulfill a wider range of social goals.
