"A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's……" — Alfred Binet
"A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before."
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Alfred Binet
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10 Quotes by Alfred Binet
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in…
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a…
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I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by…
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images,…
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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he…
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is…
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The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore…
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