MI: Chapter 14

This chapter introduces the ninth intelligence that Gardner has come up with and is debating on whether it should be included with the others. He explains this intelligence as the way a person may try to interpret their life and what it means. I think it is very interesting that he would come up with an intelligence such as this. Every person tries to come to terms with death or love, and everyone defines it in their own way and has a different understanding of it. I think this intelligence doesn't really fit in with the other ones all that well. Especially when relating it to the classroom, I think it would be very difficult, because there really is no answer to some of the things this intelligence explores, it's more about personal identity and thoughts. I know the chapter gives ideas as to how to integrate it into the classroom, I still feel that this is more of a personal intelligence that should be left to each individual. The existential intelligence is too vague and undefined to really grasp within a classroom.