By Nature, I Am Not An Optimist,

Teaching Which Ignores The Realities Of Children Will Be Rejected As Surely As Any Graft Which Attempts To Ignore The Body's Immune System.

We Can Enhance Our Intelligences, But I Am Never Going To Become Yo-yo Ma, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Or Pele.

It May Well Be Easier To Remember A List If One Sings It (or Dances To It). However, These Uses Of The 'materials' Of An Intelligence Are Essentially Trivial. What Is Not Trivial Is The Capacity To Think Musically.

There Are Clear Differences Between Child And Adult Artistic Activity. While The Child May Be Aware That He Is Doing Things Differently From Others, He Does Not Fully Appreciate The Rules And Conventions Of Symbolic Realms; His Adventurousness Holds Little Significance. In Contrast, The Adult Artist Is Fully Cognizant Of The Norms Embraced By Others; His Willingness, His Compulsion, To Reject Convention Is Purchased, At The Very Least, With Full Knowledge Of What He Is Doing And Often At Considerable Psychic Cost To Himself.

When A Child Is Thriving, There Is No Reason To Spend Time Assessing Intelligences. But When A Child Is Not Thriving - In School Or At Home - That Is The Time To Apply The Lens Of Multiple Intelligences And See Whether One Can Find Ways To Help The Child Thrive In Different Environments.