Outsmarting the 'smart' label

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Published: 21/02/2012 at 03:03 AM
Newspaper section: Life

I had a chance to attend a seminar organised by Abbott Thailand recently under the topic "Nutrition for your children's sustainable brain development". The most interesting thing I got from it was not the useful information on nutrition, but a very interesting sentence delivered by one of the speakers, Dr Nalinee Cherwanidchakorn, a developmental and behavioural paediatrician. It was a question I wish someone had bothered to ask me when I was little.

She first introduced the "Eight Multiple Intelligences" theory, an idea proposed by Dr Howard Gardner, which extends to not only children but also us adults. Basically, what he proposed is all of us have the potential to strengthen all intelligences but each of us has dominant intelligences that we excel in.

The eight intelligences are linguistic skills (word smart), logical skills (number smart), interpersonal skills (people smart), intrapersonal skills (myself smart), musical skills (music smart), visual/spatial skills (picture smart), naturalistic smart (nature smart) and kinesthetic skills (body smart).

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: Writer: Napamon Roongwitoo; Position: Outlook Writer

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fredjr
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Discussion 2 : 21/02/2012 at 11:25 AM2
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How are you smart? Awesome question every parent should ponder before choosing a path. Need more than 3 choices for students to choose from. True, I'm not familiar with Thai education... just saying
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Discussion 1 : 21/02/2012 at 03:26 AM1
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What a lot of students fail to realise is that in Thailand especially, being able to speak English well WOULD actually give them more oppurtunities and a better level of pay than being good at either science or maths.
You only have to look at the BP's Job adverts/classified supplement to realise that a decent salary or a job at a good International company demand a proficient level of English communication skill.
I do feel and see a slight mockery to students that can speak English well. Jealous friends!!
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