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L. Todd Rose

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[Wikipedia] Larry Todd Rose is an American scientist, author, professor and social entrepreneur. He is known for being the co-founder and CEO of Populace, a Boston-based think tank. Prior to Populace, Rose was a professor at Harvard University where he served as the faculty director of the Mind, Brain, and Educ

Quotes by L. Todd Rose

Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and…

Average

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Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster…

Assignments

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When you start digging into things like character, though, the notion that people have high character or low character is very strong.…

Character

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I care deeply about opportunity and fairness, because I grew up really poor.

Care

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Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.…

Benefits

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I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even…

Attention

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We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot…

Air

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Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

Character

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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data,…

Average

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Education and the workforce: I think these two things go together in terms of human potential.

Education

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Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.

Accepting

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Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things…

Education

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The whole idea of timing tests is a century old, from a scientist who thought speed and ability were tightly correlated, which…

Ability

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We've become so used to the concept as a measuring and sorting tool, that it and its correlates - below-average, above-average -…

Above average

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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just…

Body

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We need to develop people rather than process them.

Growth

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The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things…

Affordable

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