Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

The author demonstrates that there exist many human intelligences common to all cultures - each with its own pattern of development and brain activity and each different in kind from the others. These potentials include linguistic musical and logical/mathematical capacities as well as spatial and bodily intelligences and the ability to arrive at an emotional and mental sense of self and other people. Rather than reducing an individuals potential to a single score on an IQ test it is the fostering and education of all these intelligences that should be our concern.