We have just learned, thanks to Jim Reese of Washington International School, that the theory of multiple intelligences is depicted in a stained glass window at Utah Valley University. MI theory is part of one panel in an installation known as the Roots of Knowledge.
The windows installation is 200 feet long, 10 feet high, and contains 80 panes which pay tribute to the greatest human achievements in science, philosophy, medicine, law, literature, music, art, architecture, and technology. It took 12 years to complete and was unveiled in 2016 as part of Utah Valley University’s 75th anniversary celebrations.
Multiple Intelligences is part of the penultimate Places You’ll Go column of windows (top left)
“The windows in this column take the viewer into the modern era and a little bit beyond with projections of what is to come. The theme of education and the pursuit of knowledge continues to the end of the Roots of Knowledge, as displayed by a cutting-edge classroom, luxurious buildings rising into the ether, high-speed transit systems below the seas, and a limitless galaxy beyond our earth waiting to be explored.”
An online description of the window panel reads as follows:
“MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES:
Howard Gardner (1943 – ) is a psychologist who published Frames of Mind in 1983. In this ground-breaking book, he proposed the theory that humans have multiple intelligences, a big challenge to the previous century's knowledge of human intelligence.”
More information on the Roots of Knowledge windows can be found here.
Photo credit: Jim Reese and Utah Valley University