MI Chapter 14: MI and Existential Intelligence

Chapter 14 discusses the possibility of a ninth intelligence, existential. This intelligence focuses on the “ultimate life concerns” or in other words the big questions that every culture tries to answer and no one can agree on. The chapter also gives a few ideas on how that intelligence can best be activated in the classroom. This intelligence is pretty interesting because it involves thinking about the unanswerable in many different ways. It affects my classroom because as a teacher it really should be my goal to do this anyway. In order to help students understand other cultures, ideas, people, beliefs and motivations these questions are important to look at.