The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves

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The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves
by Howard Gardner
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• The Importance of Being Earnest
  Well, it took some discipline on my part to finish it. Because I passionately agree with Gardner on the importance of going slow and deep, because throughout the book I felt I was listening to someone of congenial temperament (likely an abstract idealist), because I admire his triplet examples of the good, the true & the beautiful and his respect for mastery of the disciplines, I am flummoxed by my inability to spark to the book, which I found almost painfully circumspect. The language is of that heavy,... more info

• The Disciplined Mind:Beyond Standardized Tests
  Very good reference for educators, parents and guardians. Sensible ideas to make the student a whole person - one who appreciates the world around him. A guide on how to develop teaching materials and motivate students to learn based on truth, beauty and goodness.

• A New Golden Standard for the Educated Person
  In previous books, Professor Gardner has introduced us to important concepts like multiple intelligences (Frames of Mind) and how little university graduates can make practical application of anything they learn (The Unschooled Mind). In The Disciplined Mind, he takes those concepts and combines them to define a minimum educational standard: Introducing students to the thought processes of major disciplines to appreciate important issues from the perspective of multiple intelligences.
  To exemplify the... more info

• Idealistic, but thought provoking
  In the Disciplined Mind, Gardner lays out a basis for what education ought to look like. Gardner highlights the fact that the societal view of what defines an intelligent person is changing. In previous eras, someone who knew a lot of facts was considered to be intelligent. However, in our ever changing technological world, his assumption is that an intelligent person is someone who can think critically about an issue and problem solve. It is this idea that he uses as the foundation of his thoughts on... more info

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