Transcript of Brian Boyd on How Are You Intelligent:
I think, essentially, what Howard Gardner did through his theory of multiple intelligences was to challenge a concept. Intelligence was something that was fixed, that was inherited, that was stable over time and that was highly predictable and, therefore, could be used for selection purposes. What Gardner came along and said was, actually, intelligences are far more complex than that, and he’s managed to identify eight, perhaps nine, that all human beings have to some extent or another. So you can no longer ask the question, ‘How intelligent are you?’ you can only ask the question, ‘How are you intelligent?’
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