June 21 2008: Howard Gardner
Big Ideas
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Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition and creativity and outlines why he is currently researching what place the "ethical mind" and the "respectful mind" hold in today's technologically sophisticated and interrelated world.
