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GARDNER ON THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES
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Harvard Professor of Education Howard Gardner has expressed a powerful vision for education which embraces the best of the Liberal Arts tradition. Gardner (2000: 16) champions an “uncluttered perspective” which emphasizes nothing less than “The True, the Beautiful, and the Good.”
Gardner is a strong proponent of the scholarly disciplines. He characterizes them (2000: 144-157) as “entry points for considering the deepest questions about the world.” According to Gardner the organized disciplines have “endured over the ages” and have evolved as “specific,” “concerted,” “systematic” and “largely nonintuitive” ways of thinking about the most essential questions.
Gardner, Howard (2000) The Disciplined Mind. Penguin, New York.
