Robert Sternberg

Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

— Robert Sternberg

Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.

— Robert Sternberg

There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.

— Robert Sternberg

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

— Robert Sternberg

All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.

— Robert Sternberg

And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

— Robert Sternberg

I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one…

— Robert Sternberg

There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.

— Robert Sternberg

Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

— Robert Sternberg

You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

— Robert Sternberg

I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of…

— Robert Sternberg

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

— Robert Sternberg

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because…

— Robert Sternberg

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that…

— Robert Sternberg

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one…

— Robert Sternberg

The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence…

— Robert Sternberg

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out…

— Robert Sternberg

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe…

— Robert Sternberg

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm…

— Robert Sternberg

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is…

— Robert Sternberg

And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your…

— Robert Sternberg

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and…

— Robert Sternberg

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers…

— Robert Sternberg

The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to…

— Robert Sternberg

In other words, unlike some people with new theories, we will go out, we'll go into a school and we get products…

— Robert Sternberg

Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are…

— Robert Sternberg

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better…

— Robert Sternberg

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of…

— Robert Sternberg

Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn't correlate with G. We have probably two…

— Robert Sternberg

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done…

— Robert Sternberg