Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His many books include Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World. This essay is reprinted with the permission of the author from the Professional Ethicist blog of The Good Project, a research activity based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In the course of becoming a professional, a person is learning to fill a certain role in society.