Chapter 1: The Foundation of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences

This chapter really made multiple intelligences fall into place for me. I’d always had a vague detached understanding of Multiple Intelligence Theory since even elementary school, but until this reading it never really connected. The big chart starting on page four showed me just how big the scope of MI theory is. I also hadn’t thought about the tests that Howard Gardner set up to prove the labels of his intelligences. The key points that the chapter discussed were helpful too: I hadn’t thought how an activity could connect to many intelligences – the examples for multiple intelligences that are usually given are isolated to that one intelligence.