Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences https://pagesofjulia.com/2021/02/05/frames-of-mind-the-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-by-howard-e-gardner/ Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory is intriguing and useful. The book is long, academic, and often frustrating because it ignores women and uses dated, gendered language. The reviewer wants a modern, inclusive rewrite with more examples. # Highlights In a nutshell: I still find Gardner’s theory fascinating and instructive; his thinking about intelligence types informs the way I view people in our world to a large degree. But! it was also pretty frustrating to read, mostly because of his mishandling of gender. Gardner almost entirely excludes women from a discussion of intelligences (except, of course, where we may be of use as mothers to male children). Gardner posits that human beings do not have a single intelligence, in which individuals are more or less gifted, but rather we have a number of different intelligences, or competencies, which are independent of each other; an individual can be gifted in one or more, average in others, and below average in some. In this, his original work on the theory, he introduces and details seven intelligences, defending them in neurobiological terms and with some examples. They are: verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal and intrapersonal (grouped together as the personal intelligences), and spatial.