Robert Sternberg Quotes

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• Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital…
• There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
• The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by…
• ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the…
• The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
• I'm more of a creative learner, ... I do very well in projects, but I was not good at memorizing all of that material in…
• There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.
• And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing…
• If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very…
• 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 group of kids…
• So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially…
• In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have…
• You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
• But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I…
• Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
• All of the studies we do in my group are quantified.
• The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent…
• In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on…
• But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this…
• And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.

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