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In their world, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training stand us in good stead. Rather, we need to reframe the question given what lies before us and come to terms with a different answer posited in different language.
This, then, are those who will thrive in the 21st Century:
- • They will blend multiple intelligences in a way that might be described as synthetic or even symphonic
- • They will be ambitious and focused without being self-obsessed
- • They will value asynchrony and even seek it out
- • They will use their own marginality to generate novel perspective and new work
- • They will exhibit a steadfast resilience in all phases of life
- • They will be measured by what they produce over the course of a lifetime, not by any static notion of capacity or quotient
In the fractured environment of the 21st century, true success will be unique and unexpected—the result of a creative response to complex, shifting challenges. So, how do we prepare? How do we educate ourselves and our children for life in 2050?
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THE New SMART
HOW NURTURING CREATIVITY WILL HELP CHILDREN THRIVE
D R . T ERRY R OBERTS
FOREWORD BY HOWARD GARDNER
TURNER PUBLISHING COMPANY
Turner Publishing Company
Nashville, Tennessee
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Copyright 2019 Terry Roberts, PhD
The New Smart: How Nurturing Creativity Will Help Children Thrive
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The winds of change are blowing wild and free.
-Bob Dylan
Smart people are a dime a dozen, and many of them don t amount to much. What matters is creativity, the ability to apply imagination to almost any situation.
-Walter Isaacson
To Jesse, Margaret, and Henry- in so many ways, the inspiration for this book.
CONTENTS
F OREWORD
I NTRODUCTION : Is Smart the Right Word? If Not, What Is?
Part One: BEYOND INTELLIGENCE
C HAPTER 1: Multiple Intelligences
C HAPTER 2: Blending Intelligences
C HAPTER 3: The Profile of Creativity
C HAPTER 4: In an Asynchronous World
C HAPTER 5: The Creative Personality
C HAPTER 6: Dynamic and Lifelong
C HAPTER 7: Supple and Resilient
C HAPTER 8: Productive
C HAPTER 9: A New Fluency
Part Two: SCHOOLING CREATIVITY
C HAPTER 10: The Discipline of Wonder
C HAPTER 11: Nurturing Blended Intelligences
C HAPTER 12: Coaching Individuality and Teamwork
C HAPTER 13: Feeding the Creative Personality
Part Three: WHAT NOW? WHAT NEXT?
C HAPTER 14: Creativity as a Unique Path
N OTES
R EFERENCES
I NDEX
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
A BOUT THE A UTHOR
FOREWORD
If you were to come to my office at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where I have taught for decades, you d see two walls covered with framed letters. Nearly all of these missives are from teachers of mine-some of whom I worked alongside for years, others of whom I related to chiefly by mail. While it may appear that I am showing off my acquaintance with some well-known scholars, my goal with this display is different. Any of us who presumes to add to the library of knowledge builds upon the ideas, the arguments, and the publications of those who have taught us. And we hope that, if they encounter our own thoughts, these letter writers, these teachers, will feel that they have done good work.
As the creator of the theory of multiple intelligences and as one who has written extensively about creativity, leadership, and education, I am pleased to be able to introduce Terry Roberts s book. Terry has taken some of my ideas, and those of many other authors and educators, and put forth an intriguing portrait of the kinds of minds that we will want and need to cultivate in the next decades. He shows how these minds combine various forms of intelligence and how, working both alone and with peers, individuals marshal these minds to solve vexing problems and to create new products. And going beyond an essay on mind in the cognitive sense, Terry includes as well discussions of emotions, personality, and the surrounding culture, including both schools and workplaces. If you want a sense of the challenges that face the young people of the future, and the ways in which we may help those youth to meet those challenges over the course of a lifetime of learning and a lifetime of work, you will gain much from reading and pondering Terry Roberts s book.
Though the ideas in this book could conceivably be applied universally, it is in some ways a classically American book. It assumes that individuals will be free to do what they want to do, and that they will be encouraged, or at least allowed, to challenge orthodoxy and create something that is unanticipated, innovative, even paradigm-breaking. I hope, I pray that this world will continue, but in an era of rising authoritarianism, we cannot easily make that assumption. Also, with American optimism, this book assumes that uses of mind will be benign, but of course originality can proceed in many directions, some of them quite mischievous. And so I hope, I pray, that societies will have the wisdom to encourage innovation but also to discourage or outlaw deployments of intelligences that are destructive. In the spirit of friendship and collegiality, I encourage Terry Roberts, as his next assignment, to help us think through these issues that are global or universal in nature. I for one will be an eager reader of his thoughts on these crucial topics.
Howard Gardner
Cambridge, MA
INTRODUCTION
IS SMART THE RIGHT WORD? IF NOT, WHAT IS?
At an April 1864 address in Baltimore, Abraham Lincoln famously remarked that the world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. As a writer and speaker-indeed, as a humanist philosopher-Lincoln was extraordinarily sensitive to the subtle meanings of words and their not-so-subtle power. Lincoln went on to say:
We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing . With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name-liberty.
Simply stated, varying factions manipulated the meaning and function of this common word to achieve their own ends.
I believe that as a fragmented society in the first quarter of the twenty-first century we face a similar dilemma. I would argue that the world has never had a good definition of the word smart , and just now, we are much in need of one. Much in need because of the complex challenges that face us and our children-some of whom we have chosen to label smart and some of whom we have labeled otherwise. In essence, this book seeks to answer the following question: Who will prove to be successful in this new and volatile age ?
We recycle the word smart -along with the companion words bright, capable, gifted, clever -without pausing to consider what we actually mean. One exception to this is when we are being deliberately manipulative, using the word as a means to our own ends when we praise our own and criticize others. To echo Lincoln, I believe we pay a stern price for our inattention and our manipulation of this common word. We face a volatile and uncertain future, and we need a new idea-and along with it, a new term-that will serve all of us well in the decades to come.
If the term smart is so worn out as a concept that it has ceased to mean anything, then where do we go for a workable definition of twenty-first-century capacity? What lies beyond intelligence?
We live in a profoundly fragmented world-a world in which meaning is devilishly hard to come by and prosperity equally hard to measure, whether in dollars and cents or quality of life. Furthermore, our children and grandchildren are facing a postmodern world on steroids, in which change is the only predictable constant and there are no guaranteed paths to success. Indeed, young women and men in their twenties casually report that they ve never known a particularly stable world; they are used to cultural instability and social upheaval. In their world, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training stand us in good stead. Rather, we need to reframe the question given what lies before us and come to terms with a different answer posited in a different language.
If the defining characteristic of life in the twenty-first-century developed world is constant and fluid change, then the predominant experience will be increasingly that of asynchrony-the sense of being slightly behind the curve if not out of step entirely. In Thomas Friedman s prescient 2005 book, The World Is Flat , which describes the new global economics, he prescribed positive imagination as the necessary response to such an unpredictable, seemingly unforgiving world (443).
In order to thrive-not just survive but thrive -in an environment both global and volatile, we human beings must be creative in a new and vitally different way. We will need a profile rather than a profession, and we will be defined by poetic license rather than prosaic rules. For all these reasons, I believe that creative is the
