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The Creating Minds course emerged from a scholarly but also very personal search for the attitudes, values, and conditions that actually support the fulfillment of authentic individual human potential.
Howard Gardner is a renowned and important cognitive and educational psychologist. He virtually redefined intelligence in the late twentieth century. Gardner’s work, the focus of our study, challenges the humanistic tradition in which comparisons and similarities play only a minor role. As a social scientist, he instead searches for patterns, “for revealing similarities and for instructive differences” among seven extremely creative individuals who defined the modern era. Gardner asserts that while Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi manifest highly differentiated intelligences and work in very different realms, there is a discernible anatomy supporting the productive and publicly acknowledged creativity of each.
We will go beyond Gardner’s work to explore the presence of such an anatomy in our own lives.
