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  What about the person who is good at everything as opposed to person who is not really good at anything?  We briefly touched on this in class, but it seems like multiple intelligence is clearly a step forward from IQ testing, but not even close to an end solution.

  In order to build on the multiple intelligence theory, I thought I would throw out emotional intelligence as a crucial form intelligence that is very beneficial to the individual as well as the group.  Daniel Goleman wrote a book about this topic in his aptly named 1995 book Emotional Intelligence.   I will define it as the ability to use one's own emotions, and the emotions of others, to learn and understand the world better.  This form is very crucial in education because of how intricately linked learning and emotion are, as shown in We feel, therefore we learn....  Anyway, any thoughts on other intelligences, or whether or not emotional intelligence deserves some props?