Truth, beauty, goodness
When Howard Gardner’s book “The Disciplined Mind: Beyond Facts and Standardized Tests, the K-12 Education that Every Child Deserves” was published in 2000, social networking services like Facebook and Twitter and the online resource Wikipedia were still off on the information superhighway’s horizon. Since then, the Harvard professor and developmental psychologist has experienced the digital revolution himself and has spent time talking with and observing his children, as well as his students who are products of the hyper-connected age. As a result, Gardner said he realized he needed to revisit his original work, which argued for a kindergarten to 12th grade education that teaches students to understand the values of truth, beauty, and goodness. So his latest book is called “Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed.” He discussed the new work on Thursday at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Tailoring his talk to the educators in the crowd, he explored how...