I stumbled across this, in a link buried in someone else's blog. Isaac Asimov no less, showing the basis of the idea of multiple intelligences argued in so very cleanly a fashion that there is no need to read Gardner - it is abundantly clear from this piece alone.
I can't help but think that the morons who dismantled all the non-academic channels of learning in English FE teaching and decided that everyone needs a university education might also have benefited from it.
