Letter: Theories of Intelligence

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To the Editor:

Nicholas D. Kristof ("It's a Smart, Smart, Smart World," column, Dec. 13) cites the new book by James R. Flynn on the world's rising I.Q. scores. Serious education scholars have long abandoned the I.Q. test as a measure of intelligence. Instead, Howard Gardner, the Harvard psychologist, has pre-empted the dialogue on intelligence.

For more than 28 years, we in education have been confronted with Dr. Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. He states that there are eight intelligences, of which I.Q. constitutes but two, language and math. Others include spatial (art) and music.

Jackson Pollock and Charlie Parker transformed art and music, but they may not have done especially well on the I.Q. test.

MAURICE R. BERUBE
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 13, 2012

The writer is scholar emeritus at Old Dominion University and the co-author of "The End of School Reform."

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