ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—‘catching on,’ ‘making sense’ of things, or ‘figuring out’ what to do.” (Gottfredson, 1997, 13-23). Alfred Binet holds that: intelligence is “judgment, otherwise called “good sense,” “practical sense,” “initiative,” the faculty of adapting one’s self to circumstances ... auto-critique.”(Binet, 1916, 37-90). According to “Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns”, a report published by the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association, the definition of intelligence is that With the publication of Frames of Mind in 1983, Gardner put forward a definition of intelligence, MIT, which challenged traditional belief of intelligence which can be measured through intelligence test questionnaire. He said that “It is of the utmost importance that we recognize and nurture all of the varied human intelligences, and all of the combinations of intelligences. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with the many problems that we face in the world” (Hao Huizhen, Pan Bingxin, 2005, 309). He defines intelligence like this
2.2 The Research Situation of MI Theory both at Home and Abroad
Since the advent of MIT, there are so many theoretical and practical researches related to psychology and education focused on it that the most authoritative Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) in America has listed Multiple Intelligence (MI) as a single catalogue and code it for the convenience of reading and researching. For example, the SUMIT (Schools Using Multiple Intelligences Theory) project, undertaken by Mindy Kornhaber and her colleagues at Harvard’s Project Zero, has studied 41 schools in the United States that have applied MIT for at least 3 years. The majority of the schools reported the improvements of students’ performances, their discipline and parent participation. Specializing in applying MIT to classroom teaching, David Lazear proposes three kinds of teaching—teaching for multiple intelligences, teaching through multiple intelligences and teaching multiple intelligences in his book Eight Ways of Teaching: The Artistry of Teaching with Multiple Intelligence (2004). Besid
