In this chapter I learned how to introduce multiple intelligences to my students, but also how to use it in lessons. One thing I found to be very powerful in this chapter is a quote from NYU professor, Neil Postman, where he said, “children go into school as question marks and leave school as periods.” I feel that this should prove that some schools are doing something wrong, because they are letting students leave school feeling that they are only intelligent in certain ways, or feeling that they’re not intelligent at all. Isn’t the purpose of school to do the opposite? The aspect that I really liked about this chapter is that it talked about this problem, but also provided ways to fix it. I really enjoyed all the ideas that it provided, and how they all seemed aimed at building all of the intelligences in all students. It wasn’t just aimed at picking out a single intelligence in each student, and making students believe that they can only be intelligent in that way. I specifically enjoyed the idea of incorporating intelligences with career day, because I think it’s important for students to think about their intelligences according to careers that might interest them. In my classroom this could definitely be something I can introduce, and I could possibly even incorporate the lesson with my content. Multiple intelligences will be something that I will want to be very cautious about, because I definitely do not want to be one of those teachers that tears my students down. I want to help them build on their existing intelligences, and also build new ones.
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