CarrierLit&SocReadings4

__ "Ways of Thinking" __ What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?"   For the first reading, "What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?" talks about how exactly to identity if one is educated. Is it because of how much schooling one has? The amount of experience they may have? In reality, it can be a number of things combined together. Someone, like the author's wife, could have multiple degrees and numerous years of experience, but may not be able to do simple math or grammar corrections. That doesn't necessarily mean they are uneducated, it just means they have stronger areas in their education. That lead to the author trying to identify how to accurately and justly measure one's education. Right now, the biggest and most popular way to measure education is by standardized tests. These tests rarely cover adequate information, and are usually limited. The biggest factor the author believes will justly measure a good education is the factors and characteristic a school needs in order to give student's the ability to become well educated. __ Video __ Multiple Intelligences - Howard Gardner Howard Gardner, a psychologist, developed a way of thinking about a person's intelligence. Up until recently, it had always been determined by an IQ test. Being "well educated" meant have a high score. This method has a flaw because it only looks at being educated by intelligence, or being book smart. Howard Gardner developed multiple intelligences. He says people can have multiple ways they are educated. This could mean book smart, street smart, common sense smart. It basically gives more than one way to measure someone's intelligence because they could be extremely smart artistically and creatively, but struggle academically. This does not mean they are "dumb", but that their intelligence is stronger in a different field.