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Valuing and Nurturing Multiple Intelligences in Legal Education: A Paradigm Shift FNaKirsten A. Dauphinais And these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, And such as it is to be of these more or less I am, 1And of these one and all I weave the song of myself. Because the range of intellectual capacities and activities generally valued and developed in law schools is narrower than the range needed to do the work of lawyers, students do not learn the full spectrum of intellectual activities necessary to professional excellence. The relatively narrow range of intellectual capacities and activities valued and developed in law schools also does not engage students as fully as possible. We hypothesize that if law schools are to produce graduates capable of professional excellence, they must be systematic and self-conscious about the development of a broad spectrum of relevant cognitive processes. Furthermore, if law schools presented lawyering as something that implicates a variety of relevant intellectual capacities, students would engage more fully in the development of their capacities. In particular, students whose concerns, interests and/or practiced ways of working have been heretofore neglected will feel less alienated, perform better across the range of cognitive activities, and develop a more positive sense of professional role. As we . . . have begun to articulate, analyze, and teach the neglected capacities, we have found it ...