Howard Gardner's "7 types of intelligence" becomes popular in U.S. during post-WWII shake-up of educ

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So, how different really could education have been?

PS In OTL, Gardner published his book Frames of Mind in 1983. But I think someone could have come up with the same or similar ideas earlier.
 
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I feel like we'd still wind up focusing on linguistic and logical-mathematical to the exclusion of the others. Perhaps inter-personal would be elevated to the same position, but I can't see the others get the same respect, since the careers they lead to are more specialized and or less lucrative.
 
Multiple Intelligences Around the World
with editors Jie-Qi Chen, Seana Moran, Howard Gardner, 2009.

https://books.google.com/books?id=C...d is not strong in that intelligence"&f=false

" . . . If one believes that there is only one kind of intelligence that matters and an only child is not strong in that intelligence, it can be quite depressing for the parents. . . "
This is talking about China and its one-child policy which it has enforced starting in 1979. And it goes on to say that when multiple intelligences are recognized and encouraged, parents can be more hopeful that their child might find an area to have a good job in and in general having open doors to having a pretty good life.
 
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youtube: Syracuse University Opening Doors for America's Veterans
(Syracuse admitted 10,000 veterans after WWII)

The original GI Bill of Rights ("Servicemen's Readjustment Act") signed by Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, was a very big deal. I think it's the second biggest single factor in the growth of the American middle class, second only to the United Auto Workers union and the American auto industry.
 
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. . . since the careers they lead to are more specialized and or less lucrative.
How about someone with average math and verbal skills, and with exceptionally good spatial reasoning who wants to be a surgeon? Such a person could be a leader perhaps even an innovator, but because of what high school and college has typically focused on, they probably don't even have a realistic chance of getting into medical school.
 
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More or less zero change from OTL since we'd still be dealing with an educational system still heavily based on the Prussian model of education.
 
for example, a bunch of drills in my math class, right?
Not just that, but alot of the setup is designed the prussian way. Instead of German nationalism the goal is to produce good consumer/employee drones -- hence the group projects with no input on members of groups(idiot coworkers), homework(getting used to inane busywork), pushing extracurriculars(getting people to be strivers/willing to put in more effort for nothing in return)
 
How about someone with average math and verbal skills, and with exceptionally good spatial reasoning who wants to be a surgeon? Such a person could be a leader perhaps even an innovator, but because of what high school and college has typically focused on, they probably don't even have a realistic chance of getting into medical school.

Because being surgeon means much more than being good with knifes. Every surgeon is a competent GP to begin with. Surgical skills or anything that depends on muscle memory can be trained oe assistes by machines, knowledge of physiology, immunology, biochemistry cannot be taught if one is not good with book learning.

You would be surprised how many different areas a medical student need to be examined.
 

youtube: Syracuse University Opening Doors for America's Veterans
(Syracuse admitted 10,000 veterans after WWII)

The original GI Bill of Rights ("Servicemen's Readjustment Act") signed by Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, was a very big deal. I think it's the second biggest single factor in the growth of the American middle class, second only to the United Auto Workers union and the American auto industry.

Which were relatively outcompeted by other countries that deindustralized.
 
. . . homework(getting used to inane busywork), pushing extracurriculars(getting people to be strivers/willing to put in more effort for nothing in return)
I do agree that with the whole mentality of scarcity (and the reality, for it’s not like people are misperceiving things!!) about jobs and college admission, that anywhere between (?) 40% and 90% of extacurriculars are done for this external benefit, rather than just because it’s an activity you want to do :)
 
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Because being surgeon means much more than being good with knifes. Every surgeon is a competent GP to begin with. Surgical skills or anything that depends on muscle memory . . .
Okay, let me put it this way. I mean, once we really think about it, why would we do anything other than recruit highly dexterous persons to be surgeons? [bodily-kinesthetic intelligence]

More accurate operations and less time under anesthesia are serious, serious benefits for the patient.

Our current system is like recruiting concert musicians mainly on their ability to pass paper and pencil tests about music theory, and then declaring and focusing on the fact that their playing ability is merely good enough! :p

* and why would pre- and post-operation care be anything other than a team effort?
 
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Okay, let me put it this way. I mean, once we really think about it, why would we do anything other than recruit highly dexterous persons to be surgeons? [bodily-kinesthetic intelligence]

More accurate operations and less time under anesthesia are serious, serious benefits for the patient.

Our current system is like recruiting concert musicians mainly on their ability to pass paper and pencil tests about music theory, and then declaring and focusing on the fact that their playing ability is merely good enough! :p

* and why would pre- and post-operation care be anything other than a team effort?
Theoretically, a surgeon should both know about the body and have high manual dexterity. That, and the high problem-solving skills requires in such complex work, means they need logical-mathematical AS WELL AS bodily-kinesthetic. Heck, A good surgeon will probably also have at least a medicorum of inter-personal intelligence on top, since, ya know, bedside manner.
 
As a teacher who was trained to focus on Gardner's 7 intelligences, especially with "Gifted and Talented" students in the 1990's and early 2000's, I would say that introducing that concept 30-40 years ahead of time might cause us more problems than it would solve. This is in no small part due to the mindset of those doing the teaching. Even in my own time as a student, teachers did the tried and true "stand and deliver" form of information dissemination. They would be up at the front of the class and lecture/read to the students and that that would be the end of the lesson. If you didn't understand, it would fall upon the student to have to find a new way to get the info and with the lack of technology, there really weren't too many alternatives.

Stand and Deliver does work well for presenting information in large bunches, but when you start getting to the feelings and perceptions that come with inter-personal and intra-personal intelligences, it is very much small group and individual discussions to share information and gain insights. Body/Kinesthetic and Musical intelligences are highly performance based and require an understanding of that process and how to properly train an individual to maximize those intelligences. Training of that kind in the 1940's/1950's simply didn't exist. Sports science really didn't exist at that time and while there was more information of musical study and performance, there exists more of an acceptance of "Musical Genius" than the understanding that those talents exist on a continuum of ability and people can be trained up.
 
Theoretically, a surgeon should both know about the body and have high manual dexterity. That, and the high problem-solving skills requires in such complex work, means they need logical-mathematical AS WELL AS bodily-kinesthetic. Heck, A good surgeon will probably also have at least a medicorum of inter-personal intelligence on top, since, ya know, bedside manner.
and we might as well add musical intelligence so that the surgeon can better relax in the evenings!

But that’s the thing we don’t get to do, build the perfect Mr. Spock character good in almost everything.

Instead, the assumption is that people are rather ‘garfunkle,’ good in some areas, rather blah or mediocre in others, and maybe downright lousy in still others.
 
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