That would be a question that has probably been going around in your head for a very long time. Some people have found the answer, some people are still searching, and some people have even given up looking for it. It’s a simple question, with a complicated process to find the perfect answer. To seek the answer to this question you need to first find yourself, to find your strengths and weaknesses.

Along our journey of life, we try to figure out our identity, in our home, school and any community we belong to. Home and school would be the most significant places that will help people, especially children, to answer that question. A lot of schools and cultures focus mainly on linguistic and logical mathematical intelligence. People, especially children, with these abilities or intelligences are those who we tend to believe will be the successful ones. How about children who show gifts in other intelligences? Children who become dancers, artists, naturalists, athletes? Many of these children, in fact, have been labeled as under achievers, since schools and our society in general give more attention to linguistic and mathematical intelligences. Will these children have equal opportunity to find the answer to the question? To find their strengths and weaknesses? To reach their full potential?

The good news is since Dr. Howard Gardner introduced the concept of multiple intelligences, he has grabbed a lot of people’s, especially educators’, attention, and nowadays many schools have designed their curriculum and their ways of thinking based on this philosophy.

Tunas Muda International School understands this, that every child has their own unique mind which will lead them to reach their full potential. We believe that everyone is a shining star in their own way; we believe by nurturing this potential, collaboratively between home and school, we can help every individual to seek the answer to what kind of person they want to be in the future.

In Tunas Muda International School, students experience and explore in different ways; not only do we develop the linguistic and mathematical intelligences, we also give equal opportunity for everyone to enjoy sports, a love of arts, and others areas of learning. We design different ways of learning and assessing to cater for different intelligences; for example, in many cases students are allowed to choose how they present their knowledge and understanding -- some students who are very good in language might write a poem, or create a movie; other students who have a love of arts could make a dance or song; students who find mathematics is their strength might make a chart to express their knowledge and understanding.

In Tunas Muda International School, students are also encouraged to organize themselves by making events and taking action when they see problems or opportunities. We would like our students to understand the world, not only because they want to, or find it very fascinating, but also because they want to use their understanding to make our world a better place.

By doing these things, Tunas Muda International School does not put students into different boxes of intelligence, but we let them explore and experience as much as they can, until they can find their own identity, their strengths and weaknesses and finally can answer the question: What kind of person would you like to be in the future?