I remember hearing a report of a large private school here in Suva that had incorporated the 'multiple intelligence' approach to teaching and learning in their classrooms by playing music during classes (to 'activate their musical intelligence'), whilst being surrounded by interesting art work (to activate their spatial intelligence), whilst receiving their traditional 'chalk & talk' teaching (perhaps activating their logical and language intelligences).
Nothing could be further from the mark of how multiple intelligence theory could or should be used in the class room. One can only imagine how confused the children were in these classes.
I often tell parents coming to our school that multiple intelligence theory is NOT a pedagogy, nor is it a curriculum. Instead it is a way of asking questions about how to construct a pedagogy, or to consider if one pedagogical approach is not working, how to use another. Or it can help us to frame critical questions at the design phase of making our curriculum.