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Guess my birthday? Yes, during that date, a whole town celebrates – including holding a beauty contest and public parade, the works! How lucky can you get? That town has been doing that since I can remember. (On another angle: As a communicator for development, I am thinking of what gift can I give to PH Agriculture, especially to the millions of poor Filipino farmers?????) The best personal gift I can give to students from Grade School to Grad School is to recommend that they learn how to do their “Creative Thinking” – which I added to the 9 in Howard Gardner’s list of “Multiple Intelligences” (list below): (image from thehungryjpeg.com ) 1. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“Body Smart”) 2. Creative Intelligence (“Thinking Smart”), added by FAH 3. Existential Intelligence (“Life Smart”) 4. Interpersonal Intelligence (“People Smart”) 5. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“Self Smart”) 6. Mathematical-Logical Intelligence (“Number/Reasoning Smart”) 7. Musical Intelligence (“Mu...

About Multiple Intelligences (MI), in 2021 I wrote about Cahbriba Alternative School, the MI school founded by Doc Cielito & Pilar Habito in Los Baños, Laguna in 1999. They got the genius idea from Harvard University itself, from psychology professor Howard Gardner . Aside from sending our children to Cahbriba ( Neenah, Edwin, Ela ), I helped raise Cahbriba funds by volunterring to package a proposal I called simply “Y2K” – it was catchy & dangerous as 1999 was the year when experts were predicting that the millineum bug “Y2K” would cause a digital world crash, destroying all wealth. Hah! The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) funded Cahbriba’s Y2K for PhP1 million. Thanks, CIDA! Here’s the MI list submitted to CIDA: 1. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“Body Smart”) 2. Creative Intelligence (“Thinking Smart”), added by FAH 3. Existential Intelligence (“Life Smart”) 4. Interpersonal Intelligence (“People Smart”) 5. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“Self...

The now-accepted theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) by Harvard psychology professor Howard Gardner proposed in his book Frames Of Mind in 1983, some 4 decades ago, has not captivated the thinking of educational institutions , from Grade School to Grad School, anywhere in the world. We educators are to blame – we have not learned to be geniuses ourselves in teaching! 40 years and in the Philippines, we have yet to solve the poverty of millions (plural) of Filipino farmers! We have not been applying our intelligences (plural) – we have not learned to be much more intelligent in many more areas than what our school cards show. I’m not surprised – we have yet to appreciate the concept of MI. Here is proof: Based in the Philippines, the “Multiple Intelligence International School” (MIIS) says ( mischool.edu.ph ): “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics “In line with the school thrust of raising leaders who make a difference, the MIIS STEM program equips studen...