Alfred Binet Quotes

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• Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
• Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he…
• Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed…
• Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What…
• I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method…
• Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion
• A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed…
• It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for…
• 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…
• The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as linear…

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