Decades ago, I was thrilled to chat with renowned psychologist Howard Gardner, who conceived the concept of multiple intelligences. He posits that everyone has not just a single general ability but ...

For years, people believed intelligence was just one thing — a score, a number, a measure of how “smart” someone was. But walk into any classroom and you’ll see something completely different. One ...

Gardner’s project postulated that the verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical “general” intelligence, normally measured by IQ tests, might not be the best measure of a person’s life or career ...