Dr. Howard Gardner is a professor of education at Harvard University, he is also a psychologist

In 1983 Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences.

Gardner came up with 8 different intelligences to account for the

broader range of intelligence in

people.

The intelligences are:

BODILY/ KINESTHETIC The capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body, to solve a problem.

Dancers, athletes, soldiers.

Diego Maradona

KINESTHETIC = BART SIMPSON

INTERPERSONAL The ability to understand other people.

Teacher, politicians, salespeople.

Patricia Martin.

INTERPERSONAL = EDNA KRABAPEL

INTRAPERSONAL Having an understanding of yourself, of knowing who you are, what you can do, etc.

Actor, philosopher, social worker.

Mahatma Gandhi

INTRAPERSONAL = KRUSTY THE CLOWN

NATURALIST

The ability to discriminate among living things as well as sensitivity to other features of the natural world.

Biologists, agricultures Cesar Millan

NATURALIST = LISA SIMPSON

LINGUISTIC The capacity to use language to express what you think and to understand other people

Lawyers, writers, editors, interpreters, etc.

Jorge Luis Borges

LINGUISTIC = KENT BROCKMAN

LOGICAL/MATHEMATICAL

The ability to think rationally

Doctors, engineers, programmers, scientists.

Albert Einstein

LOGICAL = MR FRINK THE SCIENTIFIC

SPATIAL

The ability to present the spatial world internally in your mind.

Architects, decorators, sculptors, painters

Pablo Picasso

SPATIAL = MARGE SIMPSON

MUSICAL

The capacity to think in music, to be able to hear patterns, recognize and manipulate them.

Singers, composers Mozart

MUSICAL = BLEEDING GUMS

We are all different

And we are all intelligent