What are some ways that Multiple Intelligence Theory is misunderstood?
HG: In Intelligence Reframed I relate seven myths and present the realities instead. Among the myths are these: if there are 8 intelligences, we should set up 8 tests; an intelligence is the same thing as a learning style; it is inherently good to exercise each intelligence; what I call intelligences should be called talents; there is a proper way to set up a “multiple intelligences school”. I encourage readers to look at the book to learn what is flawed in each of these myths and in several others as well. BC: When did you publish your first paper and what was it on? HG: My first paper, published in 1970, was a comparison of two influential French structuralist thinkers: Jean Piaget, the psychologist, and Claude Levi-Strauss, the anthropologist. I was thrilled when each of them wrote to me — I was then a graduate student — to indicate areas of agreement and disagreement. Three years later I published The Quest for Mind: Piaget, Levi-Strauss, and the Structuralist Movement, which is
