Similarities and differences between traditional intelligence theory and modern intelligence theory

Traditional intelligence theory holds that intelligence is a kind of ability with language ability and mathematical logic ability as its core, and it exists in a comprehensive way. Therefore, the traditional intelligence test can only explain part of intelligence, which also leads to the fact that intelligence test can predict children's academic performance in school well, but it lacks the prediction of individual's actual performance and success probability in real life. This is the reason why the theory of multiple intelligences came into being.

According to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, human intelligence structure consists of eight intelligent elements. These eight intelligence elements are relatively independent in many dimensions, not a whole. Everyone has his own unique intellectual advantages, which can be clearly reflected and developed in practice.